Not to mention the PS3 has at least 2 USB ports (with 4 on the "upscale" models).
You can already use an external USB drive to store music, video and picture, there is no reason that they couldn't store DRMed video content on one also.
They already store DRMed content on "removable" media by allowing you to download purchased content from the PSN Store via the "PC Store" or PS3 to PSPs. Since all PSPs use MemoryStick Pro Duos for their persistent storage, there is no real difference between using a MS Pro Duo and using a USB drive.
B) People may prefer watching shows on their TV to their PC, but that doesn't mean they won't settle for their PC is services for their TV aren't available, which is currently the case. According to Job's Jan 2008 keynote, Apple has sold 125 million TV shows and 7 million movies. That's a lot of content for just those 200k Apple TV's out there.
I'd be willing to bet that most (if not all), of the TV shows that apple sold are for iPod use. Everyone I know who watches iTunes content downloads them to their iPod for use during travel/commuting.
The ONLY person I know who watches iTunes video on his MacBook is a high-school student. In his case it makes sense. His laptop is the only "TV" in his room, but he's much more limited in terms of being able to buy content than someone even three years older than him, who has their own credit card and independent source of income.
I think its more a problem that people en-masse are too stupid to navigate flying cars.
If there are only a few of them, no problem (although the cost will be higher without that economy of scale), but once you get enough people using them, you need "roads" and people can't be counted on to learn enough to fly cars, or maintain them (if you have to pull over in a car, fine, if you have to pull over in a flying car, look out below?)
Without an "easy" control (semi-automated control/ATC?) and maintenance (outsourced rental?) system flying cars probably are not going to appear any time soon.
I was reading the article and came to the same conclusion.
Right now I would bet more on a China or China/India mission if one was needed, possibly with US backing.
China has been working on their space program quite a bit lately, they have the manpower, resources, and industrial base to build what would be needed quickly, and they have the tradition and the zero compunction of "Suicide" missions.
Say what you want to about the advanced state of technology, but the idea of putting a human mind "on the scene" making sure the plan gets implemented would increase the odds dramatically on any mission, and the ability to trim down (or outright discard) the "necessity" to return said human mind to earth dramatically simplifies any plan.
Yes, VMWare's proprietary bit is, but they do include RedHat EL3 as part of ESX for the management console part. I thought about it a bit and decided that it was still part of the whole thing, since the Windows Client probably authorizes against it (at the very least).
Personally I run MS Office under WINE, running on a RedHat EL4 Virtual Machine accessed hosted on a VMWare's ESX Server (which uses RedHat EL3), accessed through a Windows client running on a WinXP Virtual Machine running under Parallels on top of OS X.
Considering that a Mini-Series or a 1 Season Series can tell a very good story and provide the film-maker with lots more time to develop things (instead of trying to shoe-horn everything into at most 2:30 hours), I'm not surprised.
What I AM surprised at, is that we're not seeing more works follow this model, at least in the U.S.. In Japan, mini-series and "short run" (1/2-full season) Anime and Series are much more common.
In the U.S. it seems the only way a series lasts one season is if its a "flop" (in terms of viewership), so it never gets renewed. Very few series are DESIGNED to only run one season.
All told, buying ATI was questionable, but it's not to the point yet where I would call it either way. AMD's already come into a market dominated by another company and beat it on its own ground, I wouldn't be surprised if they can do it again.
Oddly I'm not so sure. Yeah, a lot of PC (Windows and OS X) use nVidia chips for home and built in Intel for office, but what about Rack Mounted servers?
You'd be surprised at how many MotherBoard's integrated video is from ATI (I know all the RackMounts I've set up from Dell and HP have been for the last two or three years that I've been paying attention).
I'd imagine that this market segment is HUGE compared to the PC market (although probably not as profitable).
Yes, but the $5 bin movies end up the $5 bin, because the store is clearing inventory space.
I remember when Blockbuster started clearing DVD space on shelves by offering "4 for $20" deals. Once they've built up enough of a glut of Blu-Ray disks, I expect to see the same thing happening with BDs that happened with DVDs.
Yeah, sure, DVDs can co-exist with BDs for a while, but as the technology gains more traction (BD players in computers, BD players for cars, portable BD players, etc.) I expect to slowly see the technology absorb the space that DVD now holds.
Okay, So Opera Firefox and Safari all are shooting for compliance with Acid3.
The next major milestone though, right after "X Achieves 100% compatibility in nightly builds" is "X releases version X of browser to the masses/into the wild, capable of passing Acid3 test".
Passing it "in the lab" is one thing, declaring it in a build "ready for release" is another.
I'm curious what the time period was for those two years.
Currents rents in the NY Metro area are ~$2,000 a month for a one bedroom apartment.
The lowest listed rentals I saw in the city itself were ~$1,400, in "bad" areas there were some for ~1000$. Anything further away might not put you near a train line which would necessitate a car (and insurance, gas, tolls, etc.).
That alone just ate up your $12,000 (that was after taxes, right?). Add Telephone and/or cell phone, Gas & Electric, Internet (DSL or Cable), and your easily adding another $50 per item on the list, call it $200 and I think its a low estimate, but thats another $2,400 a year, not including transportation, clothing (everyone spends something, even if its just laundry/dry cleaning and a shirt or two here and there), not to mention FOOD which usually a large part of anyone budget, as well as any other expenses (books, CDs, movies, TV, Computer, etc.)
Unfortunately, what they do down here is have us sign in, then take the cards and flip them over themselves and send us to the booth right next to the table.
I'm not sure if its just laziness on the part of the poll runners, the fact that I usually vote soon after the polls are open so they aren't awake yet, or due to the fact that there are multiple districts all scrunched into one polling place (school/church gym), but its been the same everywhere I've voted (three of the five counties in the city).
Alternatively, it could be a closed primary, but with voters using the same machine.
I live in NY (still using the old level machines, which I love:) ), and consistently the people running the poles forget to switch the switch on the side of the machine to "enable" republican or democrat (depending on whose in the both last, and whose in it next). Heck, the people running the polls are usually retired, elderly, and volunteer.
The upshot is that, unless you're dedicated to voting for your party, you can often have the opportunity to vote for the Majority party in your area (or the "other" party if a minority party member went before you), unless you complain and wait a minute or two for them to fix things.
I think the problem with perl is all the shorthand commands.
I'd argue that this is a problem of the programmers, not the language.
If the programmer is truly doing so much in "short" commands, then they should be including proper comments to document what they are doing.
Also, realize that when you first learn any language there is a bit of a learning curve, and you should be looking at "intro" examples, till you start to get up to speed on a language.
I mentioned in another post that there are several companies I know selling seven digit products based around perl (more if you including Amazon, whose entire web front end is based around Mason, a perl library). Trust me, writing good/maintainable code, and writing a "quick script" are two very different things, and a lot of perl programmers either work only on the "quick script", or have their quick useful script evolve into a full blown program, without having the opportunity to code it properly.
There is a piece of perl code that is about 2K lines (in several modules), that has been in use for about the past 8 years at my company. Its been maintained by about 4-5 different people, and the lead programmer kept lamenting that some of it needs to be rewritten because some features got bolted on "overnight" when a requirement came up, but there have been no major problems with expanding it, supporting it, or making sure it keeps running as its supposed to.
Yeah... there are a lot of pointless modules, or ones that aren't as good as they could be, but if even 1% of them are "production" thats 1,300.
If its 10% that number jumps to 13,000, and thats not even counting the modules that might not be "production quality" but are "good enough" for what you need.
The sheer amount of development time that has gone into CPAN is one of the reasons that perl is as popular as it is, and what allows it to be a swiss-army knife language. It is perfectly easy to write one page applications that are obfuscated, but Amazon still uses Mason (perl based site development toolkit similar to PHP, but different) and I know of several companies that sell seven-figure products that are built around perl.
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Not to mention the PS3 has at least 2 USB ports (with 4 on the "upscale" models).
You can already use an external USB drive to store music, video and picture, there is no reason that they couldn't store DRMed video content on one also.
They already store DRMed content on "removable" media by allowing you to download purchased content from the PSN Store via the "PC Store" or PS3 to PSPs. Since all PSPs use MemoryStick Pro Duos for their persistent storage, there is no real difference between using a MS Pro Duo and using a USB drive.
I'd be willing to bet that most (if not all), of the TV shows that apple sold are for iPod use. Everyone I know who watches iTunes content downloads them to their iPod for use during travel/commuting.
The ONLY person I know who watches iTunes video on his MacBook is a high-school student. In his case it makes sense. His laptop is the only "TV" in his room, but he's much more limited in terms of being able to buy content than someone even three years older than him, who has their own credit card and independent source of income.
I think its more a problem that people en-masse are too stupid to navigate flying cars.
If there are only a few of them, no problem (although the cost will be higher without that economy of scale), but once you get enough people using them, you need "roads" and people can't be counted on to learn enough to fly cars, or maintain them (if you have to pull over in a car, fine, if you have to pull over in a flying car, look out below?)
Without an "easy" control (semi-automated control/ATC?) and maintenance (outsourced rental?) system flying cars probably are not going to appear any time soon.
... and those that might not ... as long as they can get funding. ;)
I was reading the article and came to the same conclusion.
Right now I would bet more on a China or China/India mission if one was needed, possibly with US backing.
China has been working on their space program quite a bit lately, they have the manpower, resources, and industrial base to build what would be needed quickly, and they have the tradition and the zero compunction of "Suicide" missions.
Say what you want to about the advanced state of technology, but the idea of putting a human mind "on the scene" making sure the plan gets implemented would increase the odds dramatically on any mission, and the ability to trim down (or outright discard) the "necessity" to return said human mind to earth dramatically simplifies any plan.
Or a government position perhaps?
Well
That would give them two choices:
1) Suffocate.
2) De-Orbit and burn up.
We could even listen to them as they choose! It could be a breakout Reality Show! (America's Next Dead Lawyer)
Yes, VMWare's proprietary bit is, but they do include RedHat EL3 as part of ESX for the management console part. I thought about it a bit and decided that it was still part of the whole thing, since the Windows Client probably authorizes against it (at the very least).
Hah!
Personally I run MS Office under WINE, running on a RedHat EL4 Virtual Machine accessed hosted on a VMWare's ESX Server (which uses RedHat EL3), accessed through a Windows client running on a WinXP Virtual Machine running under Parallels on top of OS X.
What?
You don't?
Considering that a Mini-Series or a 1 Season Series can tell a very good story and provide the film-maker with lots more time to develop things (instead of trying to shoe-horn everything into at most 2:30 hours), I'm not surprised.
What I AM surprised at, is that we're not seeing more works follow this model, at least in the U.S.. In Japan, mini-series and "short run" (1/2-full season) Anime and Series are much more common.
In the U.S. it seems the only way a series lasts one season is if its a "flop" (in terms of viewership), so it never gets renewed. Very few series are DESIGNED to only run one season.
Oddly I'm not so sure. Yeah, a lot of PC (Windows and OS X) use nVidia chips for home and built in Intel for office, but what about Rack Mounted servers?
You'd be surprised at how many MotherBoard's integrated video is from ATI (I know all the RackMounts I've set up from Dell and HP have been for the last two or three years that I've been paying attention).
I'd imagine that this market segment is HUGE compared to the PC market (although probably not as profitable).
Yes, but the $5 bin movies end up the $5 bin, because the store is clearing inventory space.
I remember when Blockbuster started clearing DVD space on shelves by offering "4 for $20" deals. Once they've built up enough of a glut of Blu-Ray disks, I expect to see the same thing happening with BDs that happened with DVDs.
Yeah, sure, DVDs can co-exist with BDs for a while, but as the technology gains more traction (BD players in computers, BD players for cars, portable BD players, etc.) I expect to slowly see the technology absorb the space that DVD now holds.
There, fixed that for you (considering how many people are considering using it to pay for iPhones/BluRay players, etc.).
Fortunately I hear that ~48% of people polled say they plan to pay down debt with the package. That makes me wonder:
1) What are the other ~50% doing? (do they have no debt?)
2) How much debt do those ~48% have? (are they being frugal, or do they have no choice?)
How you interpret the answers to those questions depends on how scary you see the U.S.'s current economic condition (and how we got here).
"All this has happened before. All this will happen again"
Thats kind of like comparing your marathon progress to someone using a walker.
Yeah, sure, they can make it as far as someone else, but it'll take them a lot longer and they will expend a lot more effort.
Compared to a marathoner, or your average High School student and suddenly your progress might not look so hot.
Yeah... odd...
:P
But I REALLY want to know is, How is Safari doing?
Okay, So Opera Firefox and Safari all are shooting for compliance with Acid3.
The next major milestone though, right after "X Achieves 100% compatibility in nightly builds" is "X releases version X of browser to the masses/into the wild, capable of passing Acid3 test".
Passing it "in the lab" is one thing, declaring it in a build "ready for release" is another.
Somehow its odd and appropriate to see the RIAA that has been hounding consumers find itself the "Big fish in the small pond."
On the other hand, what does it say for the future of ANY goods producer when WallMart wields that much muscle in your sales chart?
I'm curious what the time period was for those two years.
Currents rents in the NY Metro area are ~$2,000 a month for a one bedroom apartment.
The lowest listed rentals I saw in the city itself were ~$1,400, in "bad" areas there were some for ~1000$. Anything further away might not put you near a train line which would necessitate a car (and insurance, gas, tolls, etc.).
That alone just ate up your $12,000 (that was after taxes, right?). Add Telephone and/or cell phone, Gas & Electric, Internet (DSL or Cable), and your easily adding another $50 per item on the list, call it $200 and I think its a low estimate, but thats another $2,400 a year, not including transportation, clothing (everyone spends something, even if its just laundry/dry cleaning and a shirt or two here and there), not to mention FOOD which usually a large part of anyone budget, as well as any other expenses (books, CDs, movies, TV, Computer, etc.)
Down in NY City.
Unfortunately, what they do down here is have us sign in, then take the cards and flip them over themselves and send us to the booth right next to the table.
I'm not sure if its just laziness on the part of the poll runners, the fact that I usually vote soon after the polls are open so they aren't awake yet, or due to the fact that there are multiple districts all scrunched into one polling place (school/church gym), but its been the same everywhere I've voted (three of the five counties in the city).
Alternatively, it could be a closed primary, but with voters using the same machine.
:) ), and consistently the people running the poles forget to switch the switch on the side of the machine to "enable" republican or democrat (depending on whose in the both last, and whose in it next). Heck, the people running the polls are usually retired, elderly, and volunteer.
I live in NY (still using the old level machines, which I love
The upshot is that, unless you're dedicated to voting for your party, you can often have the opportunity to vote for the Majority party in your area (or the "other" party if a minority party member went before you), unless you complain and wait a minute or two for them to fix things.
Why I for one welcome our new "Blue light shining", Sleep depravation interrogation, overlords. :)
Hmmm good point :)
;) )
Thats what I get for not proof reading the numbers when I add them.
Thanks for catching the mistake. (Slashdot, peer review in action?
I'd argue that this is a problem of the programmers, not the language.
If the programmer is truly doing so much in "short" commands, then they should be including proper comments to document what they are doing.
Also, realize that when you first learn any language there is a bit of a learning curve, and you should be looking at "intro" examples, till you start to get up to speed on a language.
I mentioned in another post that there are several companies I know selling seven digit products based around perl (more if you including Amazon, whose entire web front end is based around Mason, a perl library). Trust me, writing good/maintainable code, and writing a "quick script" are two very different things, and a lot of perl programmers either work only on the "quick script", or have their quick useful script evolve into a full blown program, without having the opportunity to code it properly.
There is a piece of perl code that is about 2K lines (in several modules), that has been in use for about the past 8 years at my company. Its been maintained by about 4-5 different people, and the lead programmer kept lamenting that some of it needs to be rewritten because some features got bolted on "overnight" when a requirement came up, but there have been no major problems with expanding it, supporting it, or making sure it keeps running as its supposed to.
From http://www.cpan.org/index.html
(emphasis mine)
Yeah
If its 10% that number jumps to 13,000, and thats not even counting the modules that might not be "production quality" but are "good enough" for what you need.
The sheer amount of development time that has gone into CPAN is one of the reasons that perl is as popular as it is, and what allows it to be a swiss-army knife language. It is perfectly easy to write one page applications that are obfuscated, but Amazon still uses Mason (perl based site development toolkit similar to PHP, but different) and I know of several companies that sell seven-figure products that are built around perl.