Build the hardware and sell it at cost or maybe less then create an app store to make more money. WIth that money develop new version and or subsidize the sale of the hardware. If you want to put a GPL app in the store it is free if you want to put in a none GPL it costs x and if the app isn't free as in beer you take y% of the price.
Not only are you getting the device into the hands of people that really could use them but you are opening up development and ways of making a live to people that may not have the opportunity otherwise.
To mean an open standard means that it should be free to implement. If I write a from scratch H.264 encoder based on the "standard" I can not sell or give it way. That makes it not open IMHO. Others may have a different opinion but to call H.264 more open the WebM TODAY is just a bit silly.
I have no doubt that the average person is a fine person but the banking laws are set up to help people hid money. Why do you want to hid money except for some not so squeaky clean reasons. Of course Wikileaks may not show any of that.
"And neither was VP8 until 7 months ago when it was a completely closed-source codec." Well then this post would have been right 7 months ago. But that was seven months ago and this is now.
No I do not think that it is wise to equate physical size with power. Resolution means a lot more. I have seen lots of notebooks with big screens with low resolution. They will require less GPU/CPU performance than a smaller high resolution screen will. Think of it this way. Does your desktop require more performance to drive a video game on a 22" 1080p display or a 60" 1080p display.
Really? Can you contribute code to H.264? Can you use the spec in your own software and publish it with out a large amount of jumping through hoops? Really H.264 may have been public but I would not call it open. WebM is now what I would consider to be open as is Theora and Dirac http://diracvideo.org/ . So no I do not feel that H.254 meets the definition of open as far as development goes. So yes it really is a bit of a reach IMHO.
H.264s development was open? I mean really that is just a bit of a reach.
So I disagree with everything in this but one thing.
The correct way to implement video is to used the OS provided framework. Support EVERYTHING the OS can support as far as formats goes. It really is the the correct and most flexible way to do things. While I support the idea of WebM it will cause no end to problems if Apple, RIM, Nokia, and Palm/HP do not support it.
but does it need it? I mean really what does the ipad need more CPU power for than the iPhone? The resolution is the same so the graphics performance requirements are the same. I guess if you want to put more demanding apps on the ipad than the iphone maybe it would useful but on the whole I do not see a big drive need for more CPU power in the iPad over the iPhone.
Just how long has world known that the Swiss are the bankers of choice for criminals, dictators, and the idle rich that do not want to pay their taxes? I mean really this is no shock to the world. I do have to wonder just how much blood money is in Swiss banks and how much of the wonderful Swiss lifestyle is paid for with the misery of the world.
Yes and not everyone that smokes gets cancer and some people get lung cancer without smoking but they all drink water I bet they all drink water. So smoking isn't the problem water is.
So any study that shows that video gaming may contribute to people having problems must be false because you do not like it? Sorry but I do not buy it. As games get more and more realistic they will tend to effect people more and more like real situations. I am not a big gamer but I can tell you that when I am shooting a VFR approach under bad conditions at an airport with mountains all around of FSX my heart rate goes up and I will bet that I am producing stress hormones and I know that it is just a simulation and I can not really die. That can not be good for extended periods of time. Also the younger a person is the more difficult it is for them to tell the difference between reality and simulation. I can see how it just wouldn't be healthy for a fourth grader to play COD black ops at all. So lets put gaming is as potently as say drinking alcohol. In moderation it is probably harmless and may even be good for most adults. However for small children and people with certain personalities not so much. And that too much of it is probably not good. I would not be so ready to dismiss the studies just because you do not like the conclusions. It may really be the case that too much high stress video gaming is just not healthy for people mentally and physically.
Funny but I feel the opposite way. This wasn't a celebrity it was a politician running on the presidential ticket. In effect it was an attack on the electoral process. I do not like Palin but to blame the victim also seems wrong. If someone gets mugged should they be blamed if they didn't park in a well lighted area or should the mugger get blamed. If someone's home gets broken into do you blame them for having cheap locks?
Had it been Joe Lieberman that had gotten hacked I am sure that people would be after blood and sure that Bush was behind it. If the person that had done it was the son of a republican elected official then I am pretty sure we would see people with torches and pitchforks.
It is really just not right to blame the victim. It is right to learn how better to protect one's self.
If you criminalize super computers then only criminals will have super computers. I mean really people. I can buy guns, knives, and cars off of which can be used in crimes. I do not see anyone suing Glock.
So? Radio is light just a different color. I mean really you are just going to use the exact same types of solution for this as you would wifi. Encryption. The good thing is that since this is new you can take all the lessons learned from wifi and apply them to this tech.
Exactly how was Clinton an economic genius? He presided over a huge stock bubble. Pets.com, Linux.com, and how many other dotcoms that where worth nothing but valued at billions? Oh and record low oil prices to boot. If he had been a genius he would have increased the interest rate and raised the fuel tax and tried to manage the bubble. Instead he just hopped it would last until he was out office. "Like every other politician."
ahhh... No. DirectX has certain hardware requirements. They are not going to hardwire in DirectX but will instead support all the hardware features that DirectX 11 needs. I hope they support OpenCL as well. I am not a gamer but I would love to see more programs use the GPU for trans-coding and other none game play uses. DX11 does support GPGPU but I use OS/X, Linux, and Windows so I want standards support.
Actually I know lots of people that keep old magazines or used too. A lot has to do with the subject matter. Some like say Road and Track, Car and Driver, Motortrend, Motorcyclist, Rider, Cycle World, and Sport Aviation have a very long useful life. I will stick to motorcycles for most of my examples but they apply to almost every one I mentioned. Let's say that you thinking of buying an XR650L. Honda has not changed that bike in 10 years and is still making them. Thing is that they have also not done a review of them in many years. Of course you will also hit the websites but their you must be your own editor. Guess what? Every thing has fans no matter how good or bad it is. In this case it is a good bike but that isn't the point.
Suppose you want to take a motorcycle trip to South Dakota. There maybe a great article in Rider about such a trip with suggestions of roads to take and such.
So yes old magazines do have a good deal of value to some people. There area a lot of problems with digital news stands. 1. Devices. I don't want to drop $400+ dollars for an iPad just yet. 2. Cost. Yes they should be dirt cheap. I sure shouldn't pay more than what I am now for a paper subscription.
And finally they do not really seem to know how to market them or do it "right" I would love to pay for a digital subscription to those magazines I listed if I got access to all of their old issues! Imagine if you could go back and the old issues!
I had heard this but I got a chance at an evo for only 99 so I jumped. But yes the problem is that Android can be very good but the carriers and the manufactures have not done their job.
Well don't do add words but use an Adwords type system. No pop overs, no pop unders, no flash, and no animation. Being the 5th most popular site on the web would mean that companies would flock to it. If they kept the cost low they would get a lot of business.
I just got an Evo to replace my moment. Both where android phones but the difference is like night and day. My moment was always cranky. It would work but never well. My iPod touch was so much more reliable and consistent. Then I got the Evo and it works so much better than the Moment. The problem with Android right now is that the phones are not consistently good. The iPhone experience is much more consistent. I am really happy with the Evo but wish that it had stock Android. To me that will be the key. If we can get consitantly good handsets and get the makers to drop the skins then Android will keep growing. As to Android being hard to use. I don't think so. I know a lot of people using android that are not techies and are very happy. I think you are right that both have their place but a big issue is that the iPhone is only on AT&T.. For a lot of people that is the deal breaker. Had the iPhone4 been on Sprint I might have gotten it but frankly the Evo is a very good phone.
No store is required to carry or sell a product. Do you want Whole Foods to be forced to carry Coke and Pepsi? This author has a number of ways to publish his book including making it into a Mobi format file which people can put on their Kindle or a PDF that they can convert. So not at all. Even for the Kindle he can still publish his book.
True but then you have the flip side. When we had two years of bad bad hurricanes you had the true believers saying that it was proof of global warming. Then we had none. Now we have some extra cold winters and I have heard people saying that is proof of global warming. I am all for cutting CO2 because the risks of not doing it seem to out way the risks of doing it. But I believe that climate is a very complex subject and we are still learning.
Actually that is not true. Lucy and Desi had to fight long and hard to get that TV show made because they where considered and interracial couple. The network wanted Lucy but not Desi. It was not noted at the time because the last thing Lucy, Desi, network and sponsors wanted was to bring attention as to the fact that it was an interracial marriage. I suggest you ask anybody that spoke with a Spanish accent and lived in the US in the 1950s if they where considered the same as "white people".
Let's give Lucy and Desi the credit they deserve. Remeber that Star Trek was produced by Desilu studios was founded by guess who?
Another show and personality that really should get more credit for pushing the equality was the Gene Audrey show. He had one show where a woman mayor adopted a black child. The black child was smart, and help Gene defeat the bad guys which where white. He also had a show where defends a Hispanic boy that was being picked on and explains how he as the same rights as they do. His cowboy code also had a line about tolerance in it. Frankly as far as race goes he was pushing the limits.
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Build the hardware and sell it at cost or maybe less then create an app store to make more money.
WIth that money develop new version and or subsidize the sale of the hardware.
If you want to put a GPL app in the store it is free if you want to put in a none GPL it costs x and if the app isn't free as in beer you take y% of the price.
Not only are you getting the device into the hands of people that really could use them but you are opening up development and ways of making a live to people that may not have the opportunity otherwise.
To mean an open standard means that it should be free to implement. If I write a from scratch H.264 encoder based on the "standard" I can not sell or give it way.
That makes it not open IMHO. Others may have a different opinion but to call H.264 more open the WebM TODAY is just a bit silly.
I have no doubt that the average person is a fine person but the banking laws are set up to help people hid money. Why do you want to hid money except for some not so squeaky clean reasons.
Of course Wikileaks may not show any of that.
Hey don't blame me blame wikileaks.
After all if there is nothing to be ashamed of then what is the problem?
"And neither was VP8 until 7 months ago when it was a completely closed-source codec."
Well then this post would have been right 7 months ago. But that was seven months ago and this is now.
Yes it is a big IPod Touch.
No I do not think that it is wise to equate physical size with power. Resolution means a lot more. I have seen lots of notebooks with big screens with low resolution. They will require less GPU/CPU performance than a smaller high resolution screen will.
Think of it this way. Does your desktop require more performance to drive a video game on a 22" 1080p display or a 60" 1080p display.
Really? Can you contribute code to H.264? Can you use the spec in your own software and publish it with out a large amount of jumping through hoops?
Really H.264 may have been public but I would not call it open. WebM is now what I would consider to be open as is Theora and Dirac http://diracvideo.org/ .
So no I do not feel that H.254 meets the definition of open as far as development goes.
So yes it really is a bit of a reach IMHO.
H.264s development was open? I mean really that is just a bit of a reach.
So I disagree with everything in this but one thing.
The correct way to implement video is to used the OS provided framework. Support EVERYTHING the OS can support as far as formats goes. It really is the the correct and most flexible way to do things. While I support the idea of WebM it will cause no end to problems if Apple, RIM, Nokia, and Palm/HP do not support it.
but does it need it?
I mean really what does the ipad need more CPU power for than the iPhone? The resolution is the same so the graphics performance requirements are the same. I guess if you want to put more demanding apps on the ipad than the iphone maybe it would useful but on the whole I do not see a big drive need for more CPU power in the iPad over the iPhone.
Just how long has world known that the Swiss are the bankers of choice for criminals, dictators, and the idle rich that do not want to pay their taxes?
I mean really this is no shock to the world. I do have to wonder just how much blood money is in Swiss banks and how much of the wonderful Swiss lifestyle is paid for with the misery of the world.
Yes and not everyone that smokes gets cancer and some people get lung cancer without smoking but they all drink water I bet they all drink water. So smoking isn't the problem water is.
So any study that shows that video gaming may contribute to people having problems must be false because you do not like it? Sorry but I do not buy it. As games get more and more realistic they will tend to effect people more and more like real situations. I am not a big gamer but I can tell you that when I am shooting a VFR approach under bad conditions at an airport with mountains all around of FSX my heart rate goes up and I will bet that I am producing stress hormones and I know that it is just a simulation and I can not really die. That can not be good for extended periods of time.
Also the younger a person is the more difficult it is for them to tell the difference between reality and simulation.
I can see how it just wouldn't be healthy for a fourth grader to play COD black ops at all.
So lets put gaming is as potently as say drinking alcohol. In moderation it is probably harmless and may even be good for most adults. However for small children and people with certain personalities not so much. And that too much of it is probably not good.
I would not be so ready to dismiss the studies just because you do not like the conclusions. It may really be the case that too much high stress video gaming is just not healthy for people mentally and physically.
Funny but I feel the opposite way. This wasn't a celebrity it was a politician running on the presidential ticket. In effect it was an attack on the electoral process. I do not like Palin but to blame the victim also seems wrong.
If someone gets mugged should they be blamed if they didn't park in a well lighted area or should the mugger get blamed.
If someone's home gets broken into do you blame them for having cheap locks?
Had it been Joe Lieberman that had gotten hacked I am sure that people would be after blood and sure that Bush was behind it. If the person that had done it was the son of a republican elected official then I am pretty sure we would see people with torches and pitchforks.
It is really just not right to blame the victim. It is right to learn how better to protect one's self.
If you criminalize super computers then only criminals will have super computers.
I mean really people. I can buy guns, knives, and cars off of which can be used in crimes. I do not see anyone suing Glock.
Well if it is transmiting 3mbs then it must be modulated at no less then 6 mhz. Nobody can see a 6 mhz flicker so it should be a none issue.
So? Radio is light just a different color. I mean really you are just going to use the exact same types of solution for this as you would wifi. Encryption.
The good thing is that since this is new you can take all the lessons learned from wifi and apply them to this tech.
Exactly how was Clinton an economic genius? ."
He presided over a huge stock bubble. Pets.com, Linux.com, and how many other dotcoms that where worth nothing but valued at billions?
Oh and record low oil prices to boot.
If he had been a genius he would have increased the interest rate and raised the fuel tax and tried to manage the bubble. Instead he just hopped it would last until he was out office.
"Like every other politician
ahhh... No.
DirectX has certain hardware requirements. They are not going to hardwire in DirectX but will instead support all the hardware features that DirectX 11 needs.
I hope they support OpenCL as well.
I am not a gamer but I would love to see more programs use the GPU for trans-coding and other none game play uses.
DX11 does support GPGPU but I use OS/X, Linux, and Windows so I want standards support.
Actually I know lots of people that keep old magazines or used too. A lot has to do with the subject matter.
Some like say Road and Track, Car and Driver, Motortrend, Motorcyclist, Rider, Cycle World, and Sport Aviation have a very long useful life.
I will stick to motorcycles for most of my examples but they apply to almost every one I mentioned.
Let's say that you thinking of buying an XR650L. Honda has not changed that bike in 10 years and is still making them. Thing is that they have also not done a review of them in many years. Of course you will also hit the websites but their you must be your own editor. Guess what? Every thing has fans no matter how good or bad it is. In this case it is a good bike but that isn't the point.
Suppose you want to take a motorcycle trip to South Dakota. There maybe a great article in Rider about such a trip with suggestions of roads to take and such.
So yes old magazines do have a good deal of value to some people.
There area a lot of problems with digital news stands.
1. Devices. I don't want to drop $400+ dollars for an iPad just yet.
2. Cost. Yes they should be dirt cheap. I sure shouldn't pay more than what I am now for a paper subscription.
And finally they do not really seem to know how to market them or do it "right"
I would love to pay for a digital subscription to those magazines I listed if I got access to all of their old issues! Imagine if you could go back and the old issues!
I had heard this but I got a chance at an evo for only 99 so I jumped. But yes the problem is that Android can be very good but the carriers and the manufactures have not done their job.
Well don't do add words but use an Adwords type system. No pop overs, no pop unders, no flash, and no animation. Being the 5th most popular site on the web would mean that companies would flock to it. If they kept the cost low they would get a lot of business.
I just got an Evo to replace my moment.
Both where android phones but the difference is like night and day. My moment was always cranky. It would work but never well. My iPod touch was so much more reliable and consistent. Then I got the Evo and it works so much better than the Moment.
The problem with Android right now is that the phones are not consistently good. The iPhone experience is much more consistent. I am really happy with the Evo but wish that it had stock Android. To me that will be the key. If we can get consitantly good handsets and get the makers to drop the skins then Android will keep growing.
As to Android being hard to use. I don't think so. I know a lot of people using android that are not techies and are very happy.
I think you are right that both have their place but a big issue is that the iPhone is only on AT&T.. For a lot of people that is the deal breaker. Had the iPhone4 been on Sprint I might have gotten it but frankly the Evo is a very good phone.
No store is required to carry or sell a product. Do you want Whole Foods to be forced to carry Coke and Pepsi? This author has a number of ways to publish his book including making it into a Mobi format file which people can put on their Kindle or a PDF that they can convert.
So not at all. Even for the Kindle he can still publish his book.
True but then you have the flip side. When we had two years of bad bad hurricanes you had the true believers saying that it was proof of global warming.
Then we had none. Now we have some extra cold winters and I have heard people saying that is proof of global warming.
I am all for cutting CO2 because the risks of not doing it seem to out way the risks of doing it. But I believe that climate is a very complex subject and we are still learning.
Three days without phone after a hurricane. Had them for two days after but the batteries died.
So....
Lucky you.
Actually that is not true.
Lucy and Desi had to fight long and hard to get that TV show made because they where considered and interracial couple. The network wanted Lucy but not Desi. It was not noted at the time because the last thing Lucy, Desi, network and sponsors wanted was to bring attention as to the fact that it was an interracial marriage.
I suggest you ask anybody that spoke with a Spanish accent and lived in the US in the 1950s if they where considered the same as "white people".
Let's give Lucy and Desi the credit they deserve. Remeber that Star Trek was produced by Desilu studios was founded by guess who?
Another show and personality that really should get more credit for pushing the equality was the Gene Audrey show.
He had one show where a woman mayor adopted a black child. The black child was smart, and help Gene defeat the bad guys which where white.
He also had a show where defends a Hispanic boy that was being picked on and explains how he as the same rights as they do.
His cowboy code also had a line about tolerance in it.
Frankly as far as race goes he was pushing the limits.