These new discs are not Blue Book Enhanced CDs. The Blue Book specification defines how data will be encoded and how the headers for that data will be encoded. Sony is not following that specification. They are subverting it, by intentionally placing malformed sectors on the CD.
Spider-Man was a decent film. Pretty much your average summer action film. I haven't seen AotC yet, but I doubt either one is a directorial masterpiece. Here are a few reasons (in my opinion of course) why Spiderman did better.
1) It got off the blocks first. It didn't have to share it's first two weekends with AotC. Obviously with Spider-Man being as popular as it was, someone people were watching it when they would have gone to AotC if it had been the only game in town.
2) George Lucas burned us with Phantom Menace. Many people were not happy with the PM, and decided to wait a bit before seeing AotC. He also released way too many trailers.
3) Running time. You can't show AotC as many times in a day as you can with Spider-Man. Tie this in with few theaters for AotC.
In the end, JonKatz, draws too much meaning out of what is pretty much simple economics. Both are probably decent movies. I highly doubt that people are staying from AotC, because of Pomposity, self-indulgence or self-references. Spider-Man sated a bit our appetites for a big action film.
Those features you mention are available, and have been available for years, if you look for it in the PC market. The reason, you don't see it regularly, is cost. The hinged tray or slide out tray add complexity and cost to the case. That is ok, in the Mac market where you only have Apple to buy from and cost is not the motivating factor most people buy from Apple. In the PC market where they all pretty much run the same, cost is a large factor in what computer you pick up.
If anything Apple copied some PC cases on that. I believe one of the major PC manufacturers was using that as a selling point about 5 years ago. Here at my office, I have cases with slide out trays and hinged ones. Neither requires me to remove the PCI cards.
I think the last sentence tells us why they ran this test.
"But if Mac users are under the impression that their machines can render After Effects composites faster than any Windows-based workstation, our tests do not support that conclusion."
I haven't done it before, but I imagine you could make most of the items out of stuff from Radio Shack. Door contacts could be two small (can't remember the name, but they are the scall strong magnets) magnets with opposing poles to puch up on a microswitch. Then you need an optical tripwire which you could possibly set up using a photovoltaic sensor and an laser led. That would cover the doors and windows. If you can reasonably cover the windows with the light beam device you shouldn't need motion detectors. Then if you get any voltage drop or an open you set off the alarm.
The Belking Omniview SOHO is great. I have one for my home PCs. It wasn't exactly cheap, but it probably is one of the better low end KVMs. It takes PS2 in and will send it out to PS2 or USB. It has audio switching. Works fine on Redhat 7 and my guess would be most Linux Distros.
What he was proposing was to split the message system from the addressing system. I believe his goal would be to make a mass database of unique ids. Essentially take all the IM user databases and merge them. Everyone that is a member of the database would run the directory daemon, which will register an address with the directory. Maybe the daemon would be queryable for services available. When I run a instant messenger using this database, I would just enter the unique ID for my target. The IM program would use that id to determine whether the target was online and where to find them. Now the IM directly queries the targets directory daemon to see if it is advertising a compatible protocol for the two to talk. The only port that is important is the directory daemon port. I believe this was the intent of the first post. With this one database we could possibly find out exactly what ip address and port the target wants to communicate using and all protocols and services they will respond to (they may even be pointing you to a proxy so their real address isn't available or can't be addressed using the internet). Could be really cool if someone set this up.
At least they are telling us what the plans are ahead of time so we can decide what we want and decide if we want to wait for the enhanced version instead of the earlier released regular edition.
If you make the software company liable, the businesses and citizens should also be liable for damages they cause due to not patching. I don't believe we need legislation to stop this. We need awareness, most of the major worms/viruses were at their worst when a patch was available to fix it.
All this means is W3C won't put it in as part of the standard if MPEG does not sign a contract to not enforce royalties on its use as part of the standard. So, no this will not be a way to skirt the charges. W3C can't force anyone to give up thier rights to royalties.
All they are saying is if someone is entitled to royalties for a technology that might be added to the standard, they will get a legally binding promise not to collect the royalties, before putting it into the standard.
And I believe most people disagree with you. You are creating your own rules. You are not supposed to win by any means necessary. What you describe, is akin to bringing an extra queen to a chess match and putting it on the board when you want. I can see it now. "Hey you can't just put that queen there and checkmate me." You reply, "Well, I just did and I won. Haha." To use the Matrix analogy... We are all outside the Matrix and choose to enter it to test our abilities to win, within the rules that we have agreed to. Not by reprogramming the Matrix to play for us.
Here are a few ideas on how Linux could work to become the future desktop.
1) Only one distribution or at the least a core set of apps and libs all distributions must have.
2) A standardized file structure
3) Complete documentation with lots of examples
4) Most software available in a compiled binary for the core distribution
This would make it so the average person could install software easily and still let them venture out when they are ready. If the goal for Linux is to rule the desktop, it needs to become friendly to the computing novice. This should be possible without putting Linux into a straitjacket of standards that the computing expert doesn't want.
Interestingly enough, that is pretty much the reduction in file size they mention for switching to binary encoded files as opposed to the text encoded file. When their new client comes out, you probably will not get a significant compression ratio.
I seem to remember that it is a digital projector. While it would be cool to have a digital video wall, I bet it would get damaged quickly by flying toast and wet gummy bears thrown at the screen.
I don't think you see the point. The point is SF is asking you to abide by a legal contract that they can change at anytime without letting you know that it has changed. I don't believe this is legal. They in fact are probably opening themselves up to abuse. If SF goes to court for any reason concerning their Terms of Service the lawyer for the other party is going to point out that the user never agreed to those terms. The judge will ask for you to show when they agreed. If you say that you can't because you changed the agreement without notifying them, the judge most likely not side with you. I don't see it as a conspiracy, I see it as a questionable legal move that doesn't benefit either party.
You wouldn't mind if they say posted new terms to the website, effective when posted, that charged $1 per meg used by each project each month and charged $.001 for each MB of bandwidth used. All of this without them having to let you know. I doubt that it is even legal. I doubt I can be held liable for a violation of the terms of service that I haven't implicitly agreed to.
The world has changed. Computers are so powerful now that playing compressed CD quality sounds is a trivial task. The bandwidth available to the average computer user is enough to make the downloading of these files inconsequential. Their is an ever growing supply of intelligent people willing to defeat any system that they believes infringes on their rights or sometimes just because they can. The fact that Napster was as successful as it was, makes me believe that ripping programs that will defeat these measures will get out to the masses. Making it so that even the casual copier can copy their music. The only thing that can prevent this is to come up with something that is not possible for a computer to process in realtime and is so much better that we will not be satisfied with the lesser version. I don't think you can do this with sound/music. We are almost to the point where we can do this with DVD quality video. The only way to stop this would be to enact legislation that limitted the speed of our computers. Unfortunately for the media empire that isn't going to happen.
Why do these people continue to annoy the consumer when in the long run it will do nothing to stop sharing of MP3s. They actually manage to stop us from running the SPDIF Out into the SPDIF in, then I bet me sticking a mike near each speaker will likely be how I have to make my MP3s. Yeah quality won't be as high, but I bet it will happen. This just tramples our fair use rights. If this continues I will have to call my congressman about supporting the guy that was looking into revoking the CDR charge we pay, because the CDR make be used to illegally copy music.
My guess is that the batteries have a fairly short life. This way the Predators will drop off fairly quickly during the half hour show. Makes me wonder if the Predators are just going to swarm the prey and the Predators that don't find prey will die from loss of power.
Someone else mentioned this, but it wasn't obviously stated. The ISP could give you a 1.5Mbps/384kbps bandwidth to your dsl instead of the 384kbps/128kbps that they are claim. Using bandwidth throttling they could keep you in line and you could support a few more people coming in on wireless.
I personally like Linux the way it is. To rule the desktop it would have to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It would need to have a standardized interface. This defeats the reasons we run linux. We don't all want a vanilla operating system with Internet Explorer integrated when we are running Netscape or whatever. To beat Microsoft the Linux community would have to change in ways that would not be good for the community as a whole.
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These new discs are not Blue Book Enhanced CDs. The Blue Book specification defines how data will be encoded and how the headers for that data will be encoded. Sony is not following that specification. They are subverting it, by intentionally placing malformed sectors on the CD.
Spider-Man was a decent film. Pretty much your average summer action film. I haven't seen AotC yet, but I doubt either one is a directorial masterpiece. Here are a few reasons (in my opinion of course) why Spiderman did better.
1) It got off the blocks first. It didn't have to share it's first two weekends with AotC. Obviously with Spider-Man being as popular as it was, someone people were watching it when they would have gone to AotC if it had been the only game in town.
2) George Lucas burned us with Phantom Menace. Many people were not happy with the PM, and decided to wait a bit before seeing AotC. He also released way too many trailers.
3) Running time. You can't show AotC as many times in a day as you can with Spider-Man. Tie this in with few theaters for AotC.
In the end, JonKatz, draws too much meaning out of what is pretty much simple economics. Both are probably decent movies. I highly doubt that people are staying from AotC, because of Pomposity, self-indulgence or self-references. Spider-Man sated a bit our appetites for a big action film.
Those features you mention are available, and have been available for years, if you look for it in the PC market. The reason, you don't see it regularly, is cost. The hinged tray or slide out tray add complexity and cost to the case. That is ok, in the Mac market where you only have Apple to buy from and cost is not the motivating factor most people buy from Apple. In the PC market where they all pretty much run the same, cost is a large factor in what computer you pick up.
If anything Apple copied some PC cases on that. I believe one of the major PC manufacturers was using that as a selling point about 5 years ago. Here at my office, I have cases with slide out trays and hinged ones. Neither requires me to remove the PCI cards.
I think the last sentence tells us why they ran this test.
"But if Mac users are under the impression that their machines can render After Effects composites faster than any Windows-based workstation, our tests do not support that conclusion."
I haven't done it before, but I imagine you could make most of the items out of stuff from Radio Shack. Door contacts could be two small (can't remember the name, but they are the scall strong magnets) magnets with opposing poles to puch up on a microswitch. Then you need an optical tripwire which you could possibly set up using a photovoltaic sensor and an laser led. That would cover the doors and windows. If you can reasonably cover the windows with the light beam device you shouldn't need motion detectors. Then if you get any voltage drop or an open you set off the alarm.
The Belking Omniview SOHO is great. I have one for my home PCs. It wasn't exactly cheap, but it probably is one of the better low end KVMs. It takes PS2 in and will send it out to PS2 or USB. It has audio switching. Works fine on Redhat 7 and my guess would be most Linux Distros.
What he was proposing was to split the message system from the addressing system. I believe his goal would be to make a mass database of unique ids. Essentially take all the IM user databases and merge them. Everyone that is a member of the database would run the directory daemon, which will register an address with the directory. Maybe the daemon would be queryable for services available. When I run a instant messenger using this database, I would just enter the unique ID for my target. The IM program would use that id to determine whether the target was online and where to find them. Now the IM directly queries the targets directory daemon to see if it is advertising a compatible protocol for the two to talk. The only port that is important is the directory daemon port. I believe this was the intent of the first post. With this one database we could possibly find out exactly what ip address and port the target wants to communicate using and all protocols and services they will respond to (they may even be pointing you to a proxy so their real address isn't available or can't be addressed using the internet). Could be really cool if someone set this up.
At least they are telling us what the plans are ahead of time so we can decide what we want and decide if we want to wait for the enhanced version instead of the earlier released regular edition.
If you make the software company liable, the businesses and citizens should also be liable for damages they cause due to not patching. I don't believe we need legislation to stop this. We need awareness, most of the major worms/viruses were at their worst when a patch was available to fix it.
All this means is W3C won't put it in as part of the standard if MPEG does not sign a contract to not enforce royalties on its use as part of the standard. So, no this will not be a way to skirt the charges. W3C can't force anyone to give up thier rights to royalties.
All they are saying is if someone is entitled to royalties for a technology that might be added to the standard, they will get a legally binding promise not to collect the royalties, before putting it into the standard.
And I believe most people disagree with you. You are creating your own rules. You are not supposed to win by any means necessary. What you describe, is akin to bringing an extra queen to a chess match and putting it on the board when you want. I can see it now. "Hey you can't just put that queen there and checkmate me." You reply, "Well, I just did and I won. Haha." To use the Matrix analogy... We are all outside the Matrix and choose to enter it to test our abilities to win, within the rules that we have agreed to. Not by reprogramming the Matrix to play for us.
Here are a few ideas on how Linux could work to become the future desktop.
1) Only one distribution or at the least a core set of apps and libs all distributions must have.
2) A standardized file structure
3) Complete documentation with lots of examples
4) Most software available in a compiled binary for the core distribution
This would make it so the average person could install software easily and still let them venture out when they are ready. If the goal for Linux is to rule the desktop, it needs to become friendly to the computing novice. This should be possible without putting Linux into a straitjacket of standards that the computing expert doesn't want.
Interestingly enough, that is pretty much the reduction in file size they mention for switching to binary encoded files as opposed to the text encoded file. When their new client comes out, you probably will not get a significant compression ratio.
The things I have been reading about the digital projection say that the contrast is much better on a digital projector than on a film projector.
I seem to remember that it is a digital projector. While it would be cool to have a digital video wall, I bet it would get damaged quickly by flying toast and wet gummy bears thrown at the screen.
I don't think you see the point. The point is SF is asking you to abide by a legal contract that they can change at anytime without letting you know that it has changed. I don't believe this is legal. They in fact are probably opening themselves up to abuse. If SF goes to court for any reason concerning their Terms of Service the lawyer for the other party is going to point out that the user never agreed to those terms. The judge will ask for you to show when they agreed. If you say that you can't because you changed the agreement without notifying them, the judge most likely not side with you. I don't see it as a conspiracy, I see it as a questionable legal move that doesn't benefit either party.
No big deal???
You wouldn't mind if they say posted new terms to the website, effective when posted, that charged $1 per meg used by each project each month and charged $.001 for each MB of bandwidth used. All of this without them having to let you know. I doubt that it is even legal. I doubt I can be held liable for a violation of the terms of service that I haven't implicitly agreed to.
The world has changed. Computers are so powerful now that playing compressed CD quality sounds is a trivial task. The bandwidth available to the average computer user is enough to make the downloading of these files inconsequential. Their is an ever growing supply of intelligent people willing to defeat any system that they believes infringes on their rights or sometimes just because they can. The fact that Napster was as successful as it was, makes me believe that ripping programs that will defeat these measures will get out to the masses. Making it so that even the casual copier can copy their music. The only thing that can prevent this is to come up with something that is not possible for a computer to process in realtime and is so much better that we will not be satisfied with the lesser version. I don't think you can do this with sound/music. We are almost to the point where we can do this with DVD quality video. The only way to stop this would be to enact legislation that limitted the speed of our computers. Unfortunately for the media empire that isn't going to happen.
Macrovision requires circuitry in the playback device. They are trying to do this without having to modify the cd player.
Why do these people continue to annoy the consumer when in the long run it will do nothing to stop sharing of MP3s. They actually manage to stop us from running the SPDIF Out into the SPDIF in, then I bet me sticking a mike near each speaker will likely be how I have to make my MP3s. Yeah quality won't be as high, but I bet it will happen. This just tramples our fair use rights. If this continues I will have to call my congressman about supporting the guy that was looking into revoking the CDR charge we pay, because the CDR make be used to illegally copy music.
My guess is that the batteries have a fairly short life. This way the Predators will drop off fairly quickly during the half hour show. Makes me wonder if the Predators are just going to swarm the prey and the Predators that don't find prey will die from loss of power.
Someone else mentioned this, but it wasn't obviously stated. The ISP could give you a 1.5Mbps/384kbps bandwidth to your dsl instead of the 384kbps/128kbps that they are claim. Using bandwidth throttling they could keep you in line and you could support a few more people coming in on wireless.
I personally like Linux the way it is. To rule the desktop it would have to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It would need to have a standardized interface. This defeats the reasons we run linux. We don't all want a vanilla operating system with Internet Explorer integrated when we are running Netscape or whatever. To beat Microsoft the Linux community would have to change in ways that would not be good for the community as a whole.