A couple years ago, I was at an AMD Press event thingy because they were giving away free stuff. At the event they computers set up with UT2003. Yes, they did the same thing. They gave they the intel computers onboard graphics, while thier computers had nvidia cards.
Games especailly are bound to the video card in terms of performance.
Graphics matter in the sequal market. Why would you buy the same game if it didnt look better? Well maybe if it had a better story, but games like unreal dont have a story to start with.
But generally there is a minimum level of graphics required, whats more important is the art. Case in point EQII vs WoW. Sure EQ2 might have the better graphics engine, but it looks like crap.
T2 Extreme Edition DVD has a second disc with the film in 1080p. But the downside is that it only plays on your computer and its protected by windows media crap DRM.
This is tricky, because you generally end up killing some of the image quality if the algorithm is to liberal.
You could automatically clean some stuff up, but if the scratch is major, its best to have someone go in and repaint it mainually but cloning parts of a previous or next frame or matching colors next to the scratch.
Malaysia (along with many other coutnries) already nasty censorship over what artists are allowed to produce. Here is a story of a film maker who make a film that dealt with inter race/relgion relationship. She was required to make something like 8 cuts to the film or they would not allow it to be released in Malaysia. These cuts gennerally have nothing to do with sex and violence but with how people are suppose to act to each other being of diffrent faiths.
I could see something like that happening here if the wrong people are allowed to have thier way. Lets make sure that doesnt happen.
Artists gennerally dont have to sign a contract. But they still do. They gennerally make money from other sources anyway.
CDs are cheap to DUPLICATE, but not produce. Major record labels havent figure out how to get the costs down below $200,000. Though indes can produce a record for much less.
After promotion costs are factored in, not many of those records made make enough money to break even, much less make a profit.
There is something wrong, when my musican friend in malaysia can produce an album for under $10,000 while its almost impossible for a major label to produce it for less than $150,000. Yes there are ecomonic diffrences, but last i checked, it was not that great.
Listening to his album, most of the songs are good. When is the last time you bought a major album with more than one or two good songs? I thought so.
Record labels go for quanity, not quality. If they can get an artist to make an album with a couple hits but mostly filler, they can save other hits for other albums. Then they get consumers to pruchase all albums when they were only going to listen to a couple tracks.
Single downloads kill this model. Because now its possible for consumers to download the hits, and just leave the rest of the tracks be. The idea of raising prices is to get the album revenue out of just the hits.
This may work if they take an adaptive pricing model. They charge alot for the hits, and less for the misses.
The music industry is changing. Label, relying on album sales and licencing revenue, are in a bad postion. Artists dont make much money off of album sales as it is, but it helps promote them and thus increases thier other revenue sources such as concerts and sponsorship.
Label will have to move from an album sales company, to a promotional/financing services company. If they dont, they will become insignificant. But on the other hand, if they still can keep getting musicans to sign stupid contracts and keep funding and create another revenue source by sueing pirates, they might be around longer than they should.
This is something i completly agree with. Especially when it comes to healthcare. Right now in healthcare we are rather badly balanced to the capitalism side. This results in runaway costs, many people without health insurance, and many times inadaqute healthcare.
When the US health system is compared to other contries, we spend the most money on health care (14% of GDP) and have worse healthcare than coutries who only spend 6-8% of thier GDP on healthcare. The only benifit we have is our system is most responsive. You will generally get care right away.
So, if other countries can provide better healthcare at less cost, where is our money going? Is the capatlist system of healthcare really making things better? Im not in favor of a complete socialist healthcare system, but instead a balance of both.
Since most of us pay for health insurance and medicare, why dont we just expand medicare to cover all citizens? One national insurance company that would be able to set a rates with both private and public healthcare providers. Private healthcare providers could still charge more than what medicare would pay for the procedures, but then the patient would have to make up the diffrence. Rates would be stablized instead of increasing 10% every year. Instead thier increase would be more inline with inflation.
Funding for drug research could be built into the system, and when the drug is manufactuered, the cost is basially the cost of the ingrediants plus overhead. Your not subsidizing marketing, and drug research in the cost of the given drug.
Im looking at this system, not as a way of providing healthcare to everyone (though its a nice benifit) but as a way to get more out of the money that goes into healthcare. This is a solution to the used to be finacially conservative republicans, and socially counsious democrats.
Incentive to do drug research commercially yes. But there are still many drug researchers who are intrinsically motivated and will continue to research at universities or part of non profit orginizations.
Im not sure about this, but isnt some drug research partially funded by public money? If the public pays for it, why should a corporation get exclusive control over it?
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You CANT use task manager to get the full memory ussage of any app. It only displays the ussage of the physical memory, it doesnt say how much page file space it uses.
Though I do agree that Firefox could use a bit better memory managemnt, after opening a bunch of windows or tabs, closing them doesnt free up all the memory it used to show the windows.
I have seen alot of projectors and tvs adverising that its able to do HDTV. but with almost all of them, They have an acutal resolution lower than 720p.
There is a difference between doing true HDTV and being able to accept an HDTV signal. To marketing though, it doesnt matter. HDTV is just a buzz word.
I also found that its not a goverment orginization but part of a company called ZETA corporation. Which is a company of IP lawyers. They also run all the websites related to copyright in russia. roms.ru copyright.ru and several otehrs.
I dont know, that doesnt make them illegitimate, but there are questions.
Interestingly the only reference to a Russian Multimedia and Internet Society, the orginizaton from which they licence the music, is on thier site or sites that have pages about thier site. Can anyone verifiy that such an orginization exists? Or if this so called loophole exists?
Its like the bogus act that warez sites cite in defense of thier activities.
Reguardless of legality in Russia, its unlikely they are permited to sell to anyone outside of russia. Though for anyone outside of russia who has purchased from this site, the enforment agencies would have to prove that you knew it was illegal and participated anyway.
Grammys are more of a popularity contest rather than a recognition for good work. It doesnt have to be good to be popular, just good enough. You can apply that rule to just about any type of art, from music to movies, to games.
Im pretty sure VMWARE does not support hardware acceleration for video or sound card. At least when I last checked. If they have recently added some king of passthrough to get hardware acceleration, then it may work.
How do we know if a thoery is valid if we are not allowed to test it? Expirments are a part of the scientifc process, without them, all your theories are just hypothesis.
If your dealing with star trek, your dealing with copyrights up the ass. So if you manage to raise $50 million to create a show, why not pay a production studio to produce the show indiependently and distribute the film on bittorrent or DVD?
Im talking about a completly orginal show. Not one you would have to waste money on licencing rights for.
The only reason why i dont recycle much computer parts is that no one will take them without charging you for them. Even then, you dont know if it will get recycled or end up in a dump in china.
If i paid the recycling fee up front, and was then able to drop off the only stuff at a recycling center at no cost, i would do it much more often. Though without oversight the stuff could still end up in china.
I guess im still paying the cost reguardless, but I much better about paying when i purchase the item than when I get rid of it.
I wish that were the case, but i only see more of these types of systems being employed. Game developers are in a losing battle against piracy.
I see two outcomes. Either the DRM systems either get even more invasive to a point were hopefully consumers stop bying the products. Or piracy goes down for whatever reason, and game developers stay with less intrusive mesures.
I love the why should i pay $50 for a game that might be crap excuse. The question is why should you be pirating it if its crap?
There are some places in the world were gprs is a cheaper option to dialup. For my girlfriend in jakarta, the dialup option charges her for how much time she spends online. While she can get unlimted access via gprs for about $20-$30 per month from indosat. Other than some major latency and connection issues to a couple sites, she can get dialup speeds pretty easily.
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A couple years ago, I was at an AMD Press event thingy because they were giving away free stuff. At the event they computers set up with UT2003. Yes, they did the same thing. They gave they the intel computers onboard graphics, while thier computers had nvidia cards.
Games especailly are bound to the video card in terms of performance.
Fair?
Yeah, right.
Graphics matter in the sequal market. Why would you buy the same game if it didnt look better? Well maybe if it had a better story, but games like unreal dont have a story to start with.
But generally there is a minimum level of graphics required, whats more important is the art. Case in point EQII vs WoW. Sure EQ2 might have the better graphics engine, but it looks like crap.
T2 Extreme Edition DVD has a second disc with the film in 1080p. But the downside is that it only plays on your computer and its protected by windows media crap DRM.
This is tricky, because you generally end up killing some of the image quality if the algorithm is to liberal.
You could automatically clean some stuff up, but if the scratch is major, its best to have someone go in and repaint it mainually but cloning parts of a previous or next frame or matching colors next to the scratch.
Malaysia (along with many other coutnries) already nasty censorship over what artists are allowed to produce. Here is a story of a film maker who make a film that dealt with inter race/relgion relationship. She was required to make something like 8 cuts to the film or they would not allow it to be released in Malaysia. These cuts gennerally have nothing to do with sex and violence but with how people are suppose to act to each other being of diffrent faiths.
I could see something like that happening here if the wrong people are allowed to have thier way. Lets make sure that doesnt happen.
Since you asked, you can buy his music on iTunes or Music Canteen. Its folk music in the style Bob Dylan but a bit of an asian influence.
If you follow the link in my sig, you can download music he has provided for free.
Artists gennerally dont have to sign a contract. But they still do. They gennerally make money from other sources anyway.
CDs are cheap to DUPLICATE, but not produce. Major record labels havent figure out how to get the costs down below $200,000. Though indes can produce a record for much less.
After promotion costs are factored in, not many of those records made make enough money to break even, much less make a profit.
There is something wrong, when my musican friend in malaysia can produce an album for under $10,000 while its almost impossible for a major label to produce it for less than $150,000. Yes there are ecomonic diffrences, but last i checked, it was not that great.
Listening to his album, most of the songs are good. When is the last time you bought a major album with more than one or two good songs? I thought so.
Record labels go for quanity, not quality. If they can get an artist to make an album with a couple hits but mostly filler, they can save other hits for other albums. Then they get consumers to pruchase all albums when they were only going to listen to a couple tracks.
Single downloads kill this model. Because now its possible for consumers to download the hits, and just leave the rest of the tracks be. The idea of raising prices is to get the album revenue out of just the hits.
This may work if they take an adaptive pricing model. They charge alot for the hits, and less for the misses.
The music industry is changing. Label, relying on album sales and licencing revenue, are in a bad postion. Artists dont make much money off of album sales as it is, but it helps promote them and thus increases thier other revenue sources such as concerts and sponsorship.
Label will have to move from an album sales company, to a promotional/financing services company. If they dont, they will become insignificant. But on the other hand, if they still can keep getting musicans to sign stupid contracts and keep funding and create another revenue source by sueing pirates, they might be around longer than they should.
This is something i completly agree with. Especially when it comes to healthcare. Right now in healthcare we are rather badly balanced to the capitalism side. This results in runaway costs, many people without health insurance, and many times inadaqute healthcare.
When the US health system is compared to other contries, we spend the most money on health care (14% of GDP) and have worse healthcare than coutries who only spend 6-8% of thier GDP on healthcare. The only benifit we have is our system is most responsive. You will generally get care right away.
So, if other countries can provide better healthcare at less cost, where is our money going? Is the capatlist system of healthcare really making things better? Im not in favor of a complete socialist healthcare system, but instead a balance of both.
Since most of us pay for health insurance and medicare, why dont we just expand medicare to cover all citizens? One national insurance company that would be able to set a rates with both private and public healthcare providers. Private healthcare providers could still charge more than what medicare would pay for the procedures, but then the patient would have to make up the diffrence. Rates would be stablized instead of increasing 10% every year. Instead thier increase would be more inline with inflation.
Funding for drug research could be built into the system, and when the drug is manufactuered, the cost is basially the cost of the ingrediants plus overhead. Your not subsidizing marketing, and drug research in the cost of the given drug.
Im looking at this system, not as a way of providing healthcare to everyone (though its a nice benifit) but as a way to get more out of the money that goes into healthcare. This is a solution to the used to be finacially conservative republicans, and socially counsious democrats.
Incentive to do drug research commercially yes. But there are still many drug researchers who are intrinsically motivated and will continue to research at universities or part of non profit orginizations.
Im not sure about this, but isnt some drug research partially funded by public money? If the public pays for it, why should a corporation get exclusive control over it?
You CANT use task manager to get the full memory ussage of any app. It only displays the ussage of the physical memory, it doesnt say how much page file space it uses.
Though I do agree that Firefox could use a bit better memory managemnt, after opening a bunch of windows or tabs, closing them doesnt free up all the memory it used to show the windows.
I have seen alot of projectors and tvs adverising that its able to do HDTV. but with almost all of them, They have an acutal resolution lower than 720p.
There is a difference between doing true HDTV and being able to accept an HDTV signal. To marketing though, it doesnt matter. HDTV is just a buzz word.
I did find it.
I also found that its not a goverment orginization but part of a company called ZETA corporation. Which is a company of IP lawyers. They also run all the websites related to copyright in russia. roms.ru copyright.ru and several otehrs.
I dont know, that doesnt make them illegitimate, but there are questions.
Interestingly the only reference to a Russian Multimedia and Internet Society, the orginizaton from which they licence the music, is on thier site or sites that have pages about thier site. Can anyone verifiy that such an orginization exists? Or if this so called loophole exists?
Its like the bogus act that warez sites cite in defense of thier activities.
Reguardless of legality in Russia, its unlikely they are permited to sell to anyone outside of russia. Though for anyone outside of russia who has purchased from this site, the enforment agencies would have to prove that you knew it was illegal and participated anyway.
Grammys are more of a popularity contest rather than a recognition for good work. It doesnt have to be good to be popular, just good enough. You can apply that rule to just about any type of art, from music to movies, to games.
Im pretty sure VMWARE does not support hardware acceleration for video or sound card. At least when I last checked. If they have recently added some king of passthrough to get hardware acceleration, then it may work.
How do we know if a thoery is valid if we are not allowed to test it? Expirments are a part of the scientifc process, without them, all your theories are just hypothesis.
Yeah i also had a problem with that. It seems to crash in the graveyard.
If your dealing with star trek, your dealing with copyrights up the ass. So if you manage to raise $50 million to create a show, why not pay a production studio to produce the show indiependently and distribute the film on bittorrent or DVD?
Im talking about a completly orginal show. Not one you would have to waste money on licencing rights for.
Yes and No, Although I agree with your premise, for this to work, it needs to have some standardization through all states.
I would go for something fedrally mandated, but locally administered. Some kind of guildlines would need to be established for interstate commerce.
The only reason why i dont recycle much computer parts is that no one will take them without charging you for them. Even then, you dont know if it will get recycled or end up in a dump in china.
If i paid the recycling fee up front, and was then able to drop off the only stuff at a recycling center at no cost, i would do it much more often. Though without oversight the stuff could still end up in china.
I guess im still paying the cost reguardless, but I much better about paying when i purchase the item than when I get rid of it.
I wish that were the case, but i only see more of these types of systems being employed. Game developers are in a losing battle against piracy.
I see two outcomes. Either the DRM systems either get even more invasive to a point were hopefully consumers stop bying the products. Or piracy goes down for whatever reason, and game developers stay with less intrusive mesures.
I love the why should i pay $50 for a game that might be crap excuse. The question is why should you be pirating it if its crap?
GPRS is the GSM data protocol. It averages at about the same speed as dial-up depending on signal stength.
There are some places in the world were gprs is a cheaper option to dialup. For my girlfriend in jakarta, the dialup option charges her for how much time she spends online. While she can get unlimted access via gprs for about $20-$30 per month from indosat. Other than some major latency and connection issues to a couple sites, she can get dialup speeds pretty easily.
Even with digital, film wont die. It will become more specialized. Try doing very large format shooting ( >20 MP) with digital camera.
There is also the whole analog is cool aspect. Like why some musicans still prefer acoustic instrements over electric.
There are also art/natural aspects that are hard to reproduce. Especiall with "toy" cameras such as the holga or diana cameras.
Many professional photographers use both film and digital.
The whole HP thing is another reason to use film.