Dotcast says it can move that many movies in a day, but if you read the disney release they say the box comes with 100 movies and 10 get replaced each month.
It seems to be part of the idea of MovieBeam is that a) you can start a movie whenever you want and b) it's pausable/restartable over 24 hours after purchase. You can't do that with DirecTV or digital cable without a PVR or PVR/Decoder combo attached. You're still at the mercy of the broadcast schedule.
I bet a lot of a families with kids would a have a higher video consumption if they could watch the movie instantly instead of waiting for the start time or driving to the rental store.
The technical pages mention a "particulate system", but other articles I've seen mention water vapor. It's the only logical material one can use in a system like this, otherwise you're going to quickly cover the area around the unit with a haze of whatever material you're using.
And yes, it would also make sense that a strong breeeze will interfere with the display although probably not much given the speed of the airstream.
Funny you mentioned the wireless chunk, that's in the video as well (there's a still of that if you dig deeper in the page). Actually the woman in the video holds the tablet in the air and moves it around, panning on a larger virtual screen. She also uses the tablet as a 3-D controller, tilting models and whatnot.
Team Play (http://www.teamplayinc.com) put out a combo Missile Command/Centpiede game about a year and a half ago, and recently they just did a combo Robotron/Joust. Both were done with FPGAs emulating the old hardware.
It's a true fact that asbestos insulation was used in the construction of the WTC (up to the 64th floor, when NYC banned asbestos use in 1971).
The real "myth" is if exposure to asbestos fibers causes cancer in the long term. So far the only cases observed have been in extreme exposure cases (like miners), and long-term smokers that were exposed to fibers. The Cryptome article describes the "junk-science" that started the asbestos hysteria in the 1970s (and continues to this day)
The amount of friable asbestos fibers in the WTC collapse certainly exposed many people but the long-term results, if any, won't been seen for decades.
The author also argues that if not for the asbestos hysteria, perhaps the steel columns on the floors above 64 would have been saved from the fire and the towers would have held long enough to get more people out. Interesting stuff.
>I will probably have a no-monthly-fee PVR as long as ReplayTV stays in business.
You mean SonicBlue, who bought out ReplayTV. Does SonicBlue have to honor the "no subscriptions fees forever" committment that ReplayTV made when you bought your machine?
Your PVR may have no monthly fees forever, but the data network you use may not be around as long.
Most people are predicting that when SonicBlue has a critical mass of internet-enabled machines in place, and when the dial-up network becomes too expensive to maintain, SB will begin to try to get the dialup users (meaning: you) to move to a new PVR and into a subscription.
First of all, who actually does grocery shopping thinking "okay I'm only going to spend $20 today". If you need stuff, you need stuff. The scanner has made me more comfortable shopping, at least I know what the bill will be before I get to the checkout.
Secondly, if you DO go shopping with a fixed amount like that, I think the scanner is more useful knowing how close you are to your total, instead of being surprised at the checkout and then having to ask the cashier to take stuff back. Not a pleasant moment for either party.
Symbol's website claims that people spend *more* when they know what their accurate running total is, since they can get closer without running over. I think they might be closer to right than you are.
The reply about the previous reply kind of indicates the attitude most of the people in my age group have. Median house prices in your area might be $500,000, but that doesn't mean you have to go and buy a $500,000 house. For every $800,000 house there's a $200,000 house out there. For every $900,000 house there's a $100,000 condo out there.
For some reason people in this (my) generation feel they're entitled to a lot more for doing very little. This false entitlement, in my opinion, is why we're running around with $20,000 credit card bills and nothing saved in the bank.
I bought a small condominium when I was 24 with a 5% down payment, which was like $3,500. 8 years later I sold that condo and turned the $40,000 profit into a down payment on a real house. This was in Chicago, by the way, not some rural town.
I didn't go out and buy a mansion my first time out, I saved and got into an equity building situation as quickly as I could. Yeah, that meant PMI and a place that wasn't Trump quality, but the tax deduction pretty much made up for that.
If you're sitting around waiting for that 20% on a half-million dollar mansion, I think you're better off renting of the rest of your life staring at your expensive toys.
The article meant $100K in net worth, not $100K liquid.
Having $100K in worth in your mid-30s isn't hard, if you saved at least 10% of your income like most experts recommended, and avoided the temptation to buy a new PC every time Intel raised an eyebrow...
I'm amazed by the amount of people my age that are still renting, even with mortgage rates at the lowest point they have been in the last 20 years or so. If you can't scrape together $5-10K for a down payment, you're in serious trouble.
But hey, don't forget that new PS2 title that comes out next week! Better camp out in line now!
Ultracade from Hyperware has been out for a few years already, and emulates (LEGALLY), games from Williams, Midway, Atari, Jaleco, Stern, Capcom, Taito, and some others:
Picked this up at K-Mart about 2 months ago. Nice idea, the controller sucks though. I like the idea of using a controller that's more like the old 2600 joystick.
...if you're so far behind on a project that you have to bring a laptop and code while waiting in line for a movie.
Of course, you're in college, so I guess it's standard procedure to lollygag until the last minute, then expect to do all the things you're normally entitled to do while crunching on a deadline.
The printer business is just latching onto the "razor and blade" business model that worked so well for other industries, especially the video game business.
Sony dumps the PS2 below cost, and then I have to buy only Sony-approved games at high prices. A portion of that goes back to Sony and pays off the real cost of the box.
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Dotcast says it can move that many movies in a day, but if you read the disney release they say the box comes with 100 movies and 10 get replaced each month.
It seems to be part of the idea of MovieBeam is that a) you can start a movie whenever you want and b) it's pausable/restartable over 24 hours after purchase. You can't do that with DirecTV or digital cable without a PVR or PVR/Decoder combo attached. You're still at the mercy of the broadcast schedule.
I bet a lot of a families with kids would a have a higher video consumption if they could watch the movie instantly instead of waiting for the start time or driving to the rental store.
The technical pages mention a "particulate system", but other articles I've seen mention water vapor. It's the only logical material one can use in a system like this, otherwise you're going to quickly cover the area around the unit with a haze of whatever material you're using.
And yes, it would also make sense that a strong breeeze will interfere with the display although probably not much given the speed of the airstream.
For the love of god, take it to the bathroom!
It's easily the most annoying thing one can do in their own cube that will make everyone else want to tear their ears off.
Funny you mentioned the wireless chunk, that's in the video as well (there's a still of that if you dig deeper in the page). Actually the woman in the video holds the tablet in the air and moves it around, panning on a larger virtual screen. She also uses the tablet as a 3-D controller, tilting models and whatnot.
This was a concept that Sun did back in 1995, long before Microsoft ripped it off for their Office of the Future stuff.
A great blog with interesting programs and algorithms. Some of the stuff is really experimental and cutting edge:
http://www.sweetcode.org
Here's the link
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http://www.researchchannel.org/program/displaye
For some reason my editor can't paste this link properly, omit the space in "displayevent".
Team Play (http://www.teamplayinc.com) put out a combo Missile Command/Centpiede game about a year and a half ago, and recently they just did a combo Robotron/Joust. Both were done with FPGAs emulating the old hardware.
Can't be a real thread until it is!
has wired.com covered it yet?
Every tenth article here is a Wired article.
It's a true fact that asbestos insulation was used in the construction of the WTC (up to the 64th floor, when NYC banned asbestos use in 1971).
The real "myth" is if exposure to asbestos fibers causes cancer in the long term. So far the only cases observed have been in extreme exposure cases (like miners), and long-term smokers that were exposed to fibers. The Cryptome article describes the "junk-science" that started the asbestos hysteria in the 1970s (and continues to this day)
The amount of friable asbestos fibers in the WTC collapse certainly exposed many people but the long-term results, if any, won't been seen for decades.
The author also argues that if not for the asbestos hysteria, perhaps the steel columns on the floors above 64 would have been saved from the fire and the towers would have held long enough to get more people out. Interesting stuff.
>I will probably have a no-monthly-fee PVR as long as ReplayTV stays in business.
You mean SonicBlue, who bought out ReplayTV. Does SonicBlue have to honor the "no subscriptions fees forever" committment that ReplayTV made when you bought your machine?
Your PVR may have no monthly fees forever, but the data network you use may not be around as long.
Most people are predicting that when SonicBlue has a critical mass of internet-enabled machines in place, and when the dial-up network becomes too expensive to maintain, SB will begin to try to get the dialup users (meaning: you) to move to a new PVR and into a subscription.
http://www.symbol.com/products/consumer_systems/co nsumer_pss_ls.html
First of all, who actually does grocery shopping thinking "okay I'm only going to spend $20 today". If you need stuff, you need stuff. The scanner has made me more comfortable shopping, at least I know what the bill will be before I get to the checkout.
Secondly, if you DO go shopping with a fixed amount like that, I think the scanner is more useful knowing how close you are to your total, instead of being surprised at the checkout and then having to ask the cashier to take stuff back. Not a pleasant moment for either party.
Symbol's website claims that people spend *more* when they know what their accurate running total is, since they can get closer without running over. I think they might be closer to right than you are.
The reply about the previous reply kind of indicates the attitude most of the people in my age group have. Median house prices in your area might be $500,000, but that doesn't mean you have to go and buy a $500,000 house. For every $800,000 house there's a $200,000 house out there. For every $900,000 house there's a $100,000 condo out there.
For some reason people in this (my) generation feel they're entitled to a lot more for doing very little. This false entitlement, in my opinion, is why we're running around with $20,000 credit card bills and nothing saved in the bank.
I bought a small condominium when I was 24 with a 5% down payment, which was like $3,500. 8 years later I sold that condo and turned the $40,000 profit into a down payment on a real house. This was in Chicago, by the way, not some rural town.
I didn't go out and buy a mansion my first time out, I saved and got into an equity building situation as quickly as I could. Yeah, that meant PMI and a place that wasn't Trump quality, but the tax deduction pretty much made up for that.
If you're sitting around waiting for that 20% on a half-million dollar mansion, I think you're better off renting of the rest of your life staring at your expensive toys.
The article meant $100K in net worth, not $100K liquid.
Having $100K in worth in your mid-30s isn't hard, if you saved at least 10% of your income like most experts recommended, and avoided the temptation to buy a new PC every time Intel raised an eyebrow...
I'm amazed by the amount of people my age that are still renting, even with mortgage rates at the lowest point they have been in the last 20 years or so. If you can't scrape together $5-10K for a down payment, you're in serious trouble.
But hey, don't forget that new PS2 title that comes out next week! Better camp out in line now!
Ultracade from Hyperware has been out for a few years already, and emulates (LEGALLY), games from Williams, Midway, Atari, Jaleco, Stern, Capcom, Taito, and some others:
http://www.ultracade.com/
It's a bit pricey, though.
http://www.toymax.com/ToyCentral/EL/10in1.htm
Picked this up at K-Mart about 2 months ago. Nice idea, the controller sucks though. I like the idea of using a controller that's more like the old 2600 joystick.
...if you're so far behind on a project that you have to bring a laptop and code while waiting in line for a movie.
Of course, you're in college, so I guess it's standard procedure to lollygag until the last minute, then expect to do all the things you're normally entitled to do while crunching on a deadline.
Sounds like a good work ethic to me!
The printer business is just latching onto the "razor and blade" business model that worked so well for other industries, especially the video game business.
Sony dumps the PS2 below cost, and then I have to buy only Sony-approved games at high prices. A portion of that goes back to Sony and pays off the real cost of the box.
Is congress investigating them as well?
But the best part is that I can wait a week and see it at the same theater, and the quality will be just as good.
Of course, if you're just camping out to be the first to see it, then that's another story.
Hasn't been an interesting story on slash in months. A few bad jokes won't spoil anything.
Just another data point in my 'abandon slashdot' list.
on Feb 28th 2002.
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http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t
Not dead at all, since SonicBlue now owns Replay. How about checking some facts before you post?