The entertainment industry needs to realize that they only have one advantage, they distribute first.
The whole issue is here because, nowadays, distribution isn't expensive. I currently pay (from wire to eyes) ~50 cents/Gig for content that I can time shift/copy/archive any way I want. (This doesn't include my hefty investment in a home theater system.)
There is only one way to survive. Its like the slashdot subscription; I'm willing to spend an extra dollar to get content a day early. Now, they could still try to 'teir' their content by delaying releases with increasing fidelity. It's been done before, but that usually just ticks me off.
There's nothing better that thinking "wow! this song is awesome, I wish I had it" and then be able to play it back on my laptop/mp3 player.
I remember a conversation concerning streamripper stating that the song info (id3 tags etc) were actually mandated by the DCMA, and that stations that mangled that information in order to make it impossible to separate songs were in violation of it.
"only manage to produce something that performs the task awkwardly, stupidly or otherwise ineptly" Or they could miss the point entirely. FTA:
"About half of the time during a gait cycle we are not doing anything, just falling forward. We are propelling ourselves over and over again - like releasing a spring." I'm sorry, but when I walk, I am not constantly falling forward (maybe a little when I run). Anybody who has actually studied the art of body movement (i.e. past the toddler stage of just getting by) should know that there are better ways to walk than this.
I have an old dual p3 board DVD266u-RN that needs a few minutes to randomly freeze and/or reboot during varios parts of starting up.
Underclocking seems to do the trick, untill it has been running for half an hour, then the P3's run stable at 1.4Ghz. It was strange explaining to friends at LAN parties that the thing needed to 'warm up'. Come to think of it, I replaced the caps on this thing not too long before it started this behavior.
I? KILL? said Death, obviously offended. CERTAINLY NOT. PEOPLE GET KILLED, BUT THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS. I JUST TAKE OVER FROM THEN ON. AFTER ALL, IT'D BE A BLOODY STUPID WORLD IF PEOPLE GOT KILLED WITHOUT DYING, WOULDN'T IT?
Sounds like some online games I play. I wonder what Death would think about respawning? Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
"This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all- purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense." - DNA
Brutal!? You don't know the MEANING of brutal until you've heard the story of Culture Three! How brutal WAS Culture Three you ask? Culture Three was SO brutal that they maimed, tortured, enslaved, and in general brutalized THEMSELVES!
You see, Culture Two had made a virtue of stoic resistance to pain, stubborn fortitude, that sort of thing. So when Culture Three came around, they had a problem. How were they going to impress everyone as being EVEN TOUGHER? Their answer? They would arrive at a battle, stand on a tall hill where everyone could see them and chop off one of their own limbs! Then they'd wave it around, screaming and shaking it at their enemies. It worked! It scared the hell out of their opponents! They ran like crazy! You could tell who was a real war hero back then by how few arms or legs he had left. War parades were quite different too. Instead of sturdy old warriors walking slowly past the reviewing stands they tended to roll, and at a good clip, too.
"... making it fast and hyper-efficient. BitTorrent creates the conditions for something I've termed "hyperdistribution" - a distribution channel which is even more efficient than broadcasting."
I think broadcasting is fairly efficient. BT is a waste of duplicated bandwidth. It's the fact that we dont control the broadcasting that makes BT even an option.
1 Hz is 1 cycle per second... I can understand why memory is counted in 2^10 instead of 10^3, but I think Hz has been used for things before binary became trendy, and should therefore not follow the 1024 "rule".
IANAN(Ninja) but During Budo class you learn that Americans walk funny, we're just good enough at it that we don't fall down on our faces. In other countries (Japan) they _pull_ with the lead leg instead of falling on it. The american way looks like a "frankenstein" walk to them. If you walk backwards your body automatically remembers how to walk this way. It feels funny forwards if you aren't used to it, but apparently its great for distance walking and stability.
Its a small footprint (1/4th a keyboard with the same size keys) cording keyboard.
I started using the "ifrog" (bluetooth version) a few months ago. The layout has some quirks I disagree with but there are reasons behind the design, it is very well thought out.
The best part is they actually listen to you, the bluetooth version came out with some improvements based on user feedback. There's a pretty good forum http://frogpad.zeroforum.com/. They are asking about and looking into in other possibilities such as a built in mouse, custom layouts, and a gamers version. I still haven't given up the keyboard due to gaming issues, but once they come out with a gamers version I'll be ready to toss that old qwerty keyboard out for good.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.amazon.com/Reversible-Logic-Synthesis-Anas-Al-Rabadi/dp/3540009353 (November 5, 2003)
All about what you can and can't do with quantum computing (and how to implement it)
If you don't want to wade through everything, skip to Chapter 11.
http://books.google.com/books?id=0e8LbxngITsC&pg=PA229&dq=reversible+logic+synthesis&sig=l1bT9QLXAuEkhqLlmnU8gopwndY
The entertainment industry needs to realize that they only have one advantage, they distribute first.
The whole issue is here because, nowadays, distribution isn't expensive. I currently pay (from wire to eyes) ~50 cents/Gig for content that I can time shift/copy/archive any way I want. (This doesn't include my hefty investment in a home theater system.)
There is only one way to survive. Its like the slashdot subscription; I'm willing to spend an extra dollar to get content a day early. Now, they could still try to 'teir' their content by delaying releases with increasing fidelity. It's been done before, but that usually just ticks me off.
The original .mod files were pretty good for the day, but the "official Ur-Quan Masters remix" packs are a step up as well
http://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
Why is this a troll?
http://xkcd.com/221/
Thats really cool!
Any pictures for us to see?
http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/grid/war s.htm
Note on the URL: I believe it's World of Stuart, not Wolrd ofStu art.
Anyway, some games are pure, this is an example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worthing_Saga
I used to keep streamripper http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/ going on tags trance and pick out the songs I liked.
There's nothing better that thinking "wow! this song is awesome, I wish I had it" and then be able to play it back on my laptop/mp3 player.
I remember a conversation concerning streamripper stating that the song info (id3 tags etc) were actually mandated by the DCMA, and that stations that mangled that information in order to make it impossible to separate songs were in violation of it.
Goldmine still exists?
"My dog! It's full of Rats!" - 2001: A Dyslexic Odyssey
shamelessly ripped from someones sig
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS
Probable cases of SARS by country, 1 November 2002-31 July 2003.
Deaths Fatality (%)
8096 774 9.6
(sorry if this is going a bit off topic)
I have an old dual p3 board DVD266u-RN that needs a few minutes to randomly freeze and/or reboot during varios parts of starting up.
Underclocking seems to do the trick, untill it has been running for half an hour, then the P3's run stable at 1.4Ghz. It was strange explaining to friends at LAN parties that the thing needed to 'warm up'. Come to think of it, I replaced the caps on this thing not too long before it started this behavior.
Pick your color Korh-Ah or Kzer-Za
"Well, I guess a lot can happen to a species in three Drahn like turning green and evil."
sig
Sounds like some online games I play. I wonder what Death would think about respawning?
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Use the Ident-i-Eeze!
"This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all- purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense." - DNA
Brutal!? You don't know the MEANING of brutal until you've heard the story of Culture Three! How brutal WAS Culture Three you ask? Culture Three was SO brutal that they maimed, tortured, enslaved, and in general brutalized THEMSELVES!
You see, Culture Two had made a virtue of stoic resistance to pain, stubborn fortitude, that sort of thing. So when Culture Three came around, they had a problem. How were they going to impress everyone as being EVEN TOUGHER? Their answer? They would arrive at a battle, stand on a tall hill where everyone could see them and chop off one of their own limbs! Then they'd wave it around, screaming and shaking it at their enemies. It worked! It scared the hell out of their opponents! They ran like crazy! You could tell who was a real war hero back then by how few arms or legs he had left. War parades were quite different too. Instead of sturdy old warriors walking slowly past the reviewing stands they tended to roll, and at a good clip, too.
Starcon2:Thraddash
dvorak?
I think broadcasting is fairly efficient. BT is a waste of duplicated bandwidth. It's the fact that we dont control the broadcasting that makes BT even an option.
*sigh* bring back my @home/attbi news servers!
Dont know if your trying to continue the spirit of the grandparent joke but I'm going to reply seriously.
There's metric (1,000 meters = 1km) and binary metric (1024Bytes = 1MB).
1 Hz is 1 cycle per second... I can understand why memory is counted in 2^10 instead of 10^3, but I think Hz has been used for things before binary became trendy, and should therefore not follow the 1024 "rule".
IANAN(Ninja) but During Budo class you learn that Americans walk funny, we're just good enough at it that we don't fall down on our faces. In other countries (Japan) they _pull_ with the lead leg instead of falling on it. The american way looks like a "frankenstein" walk to them. If you walk backwards your body automatically remembers how to walk this way. It feels funny forwards if you aren't used to it, but apparently its great for distance walking and stability.
Nobody mentioned the frogpad?
http://www.frogpad.com/
Its a small footprint (1/4th a keyboard with the same size keys) cording keyboard.
I started using the "ifrog" (bluetooth version) a few months ago. The layout has some quirks I disagree with but there are reasons behind the design, it is very well thought out.
The best part is they actually listen to you, the bluetooth version came out with some improvements based on user feedback. There's a pretty good forum http://frogpad.zeroforum.com/. They are asking about and looking into in other possibilities such as a built in mouse, custom layouts, and a gamers version. I still haven't given up the keyboard due to gaming issues, but once they come out with a gamers version I'll be ready to toss that old qwerty keyboard out for good.