the telco would be happy to run the cable out to him and give him service, so long as his company will pay some huge (1000's of dollars) "cabling" fee to get it out there.
The telco is required by law to run any cabling you need to wherever you want it, at their cost. I was talking to a guy who had an ISDN line run out to his house (in the middle of nowhere)..it took the phone company over six months to do it, but they did do it and at their cost. Apparently the phone company took too long running the cable and he also got 6 months of free service.
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They key to competing with Microsoft will be to continue concentrating on the game performance while allowing enough expandability for the user to add on features to make the PS3 compete with full fledged home computers. I'm sure the final design of the PS3 is going to have a hard drive, a decent amount of RAM, and an Ethernet port.
Any semblance to a PC is a prime reason for me NOT to buy a console. I hate PC gaming, and have hated it since the games went to hardware 3d. I've spent more time chasing bugs in drivers that create odd artifacts in games (or lock the whole machine) than I have actually playing games in the last few years. Anything that will allow console game developers to get away with the stupid 'wait for the next patch' crap is a step in the wrong direction.
The homeless person shouldn't HAVE to steal his food in the first place. He should be able to walk in the doors of any religous organization and get help.
The original poster was referring to use of quantum cryptography inside the United States. Your post makes aboslutely no sense at all in context. Of course the government wanted to restrict the availability of strong cryptographic mechanisms to the rest of the world! However; they never (to my knowledge) restricted its use inside the United States.
Of course, it could be argued that if there was no money to be made in the arts then only those who truly love them will produce them. This would create a situation in which only the highest quality works would be produced. So what if copyrights were abolished? Take the above statement and change the word arts to software and you'll see my point.
I would say yes to that. Given that I am unable to sit and gain anything at all from a class due to my mind wandering, and yet I can sit down and code for 15 hours straight. The classes I enjoy the most are the ones in which the professor doesn't teach...I don't need some braindead monkey copying problems on a blackboard, I need to figure out the problem myself! While I can't pay attention to the monkey for an hour, I can easily lose track of time trying to work out a problem on my own.
I really think ADD type people's brains work faster than normal peoples. I can't prove it, but it makes sense given the experiences of people I've talked to.
It's true, there's a lot of whiny, overpaid, pampered programmers in the world
Read: Those guys that are in it solely for the money and, despite the fact they spent 4 years "learning" CS in some college, they still don't fully understand what they're doing.
Whenever I go to the point of registering as if I were planning on buying or trying a piece of software and yet I don't actually carry through it means that the vendor didn't have all the information I needed available on the website. Quite often I'll register with a fake email address to check and see what the pricing schemes look like, what it will cost to ship a product, or just to see if I can glean any extra information from the website after registering.
If you take the limit as price goes to zero of the usefulness of the software over the price of the software you'll find that free software is infinitely better than any software that costs money.
Math, when appropriately misapplied, can be used to prove anything:-).
If the users are too stupid to use an alternative browser to whatever CompuServe ships with their grandma-friendly gui then they probably deserve to get disturbed a bit...maybe they'll actually be forced to learn how to use their computer for a change. Paying for something does not imply zero learning curve, despite what Microsoft would have so many people believe.
Sure gas is explosive but a hydrogen car is a bomb
So would you rather be killed by the 1 megaton nuke as opposed to the 10 megaton nuke? You're just used to sitting on 15 gallons of gasoline...in time (assuming hydrogen powered automobiles make it to the consumer market), you'll be used to sitting on the hydrogen. So many people don't understand the amount of faith they're already putting into human engineering skill, and thus make statements such as yours.
As long as copy protection isn't government mandated, Microsoft's patents do diddly-squat for them. DRM OS implies building control management into the operating system...i'm sure you can think of plenty of ways to build DRM into a system without putting it in the operating system. The only function microsoft's patents were intended for is killing OSS in America if the CBDTPA passes.
I was invited over for a sneak-preview earlier this year by Mark Skaggs, and I'll tell you one thing: the rotation potential (of the 3D) graphics on this game, especially the scenery, is two generations of anything currently available on the market.
I'd hope it was at least two generations ahead, as that's probably how long it'll take before we see the game;-).
The real question is: why does crap like that get posted in the first place. Slashdot editors see no problem using their infinite mod points, why not cut some trolling while they're at it.
Not that I'm complaining about the mod points, I couldn't possibly care less.
...and no, I don't watch Fox News, or ABC, or NBC, or CBS for that matter. I can read faster than the news anchor can speak. Compressing the whole day into 10 stories and compressing that into an hour is stupid. My television hasn't moved off channel 3 (the Nintendo channel:) ) in months.
Otherwise known as too much money being put in one place. I don't understand why anyone donates to the united way and other large "charity" organizations. Even if you don't believe in a God, you should still donate to local church benevolence programs (just earmark the money for benevolence only). No beuracracy to muddle with, the money goes entirely to the people who need help because all the workers are volunteers.
Xerox also does this, at least on the support line for their copiers. It's fairly slick and was able to extract the english out of the horribly mangled "english" that I talked to it in:). I had to read the machine a string of numbers and it picked everyone of them up correctly.
On top of everything you've said, TV hardware on the PC isn't quite mature yet. I've been through two motherboards and tried both a hauppage wintv and all-in-wonder radeon on both with only limited success. In fact, I even tried out snapstream's software with the wintv card. Both cards are plagued by lockups, even under win2k.
Interestingly enough, the wintv card worked better under Linux than it ever did under Windows.
One word: Macrovision. It screws with video capture cards along with tape decks...maybe not all video capture cards, but certainly all the ones i've played with. You get a picture, but you also get nice lines in the picture and fun hue shifts:).
I have to question anyone who continually refers to movies on DVD as "software". Also:
So, is there any real benefit directly for the consumer with D-Theater? Yes. Aside from offering a copy protection studio safe enough to compel the studios to release HD material as prepackaged media at all
The studios shouldn't be compelled by encryption, they should be compelled by consumer's desire for their product. If consumers are not the #1 driving factor behind a product aimed solely at consumers then there is a problem here. Someone has gotten so big that consumer desire will exist regardless of what they do.
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the telco would be happy to run the cable out to him and give him service, so long as his company will pay some huge (1000's of dollars) "cabling" fee to get it out there.
The telco is required by law to run any cabling you need to wherever you want it, at their cost. I was talking to a guy who had an ISDN line run out to his house (in the middle of nowhere)..it took the phone company over six months to do it, but they did do it and at their cost. Apparently the phone company took too long running the cable and he also got 6 months of free service.
They key to competing with Microsoft will be to continue concentrating on the game performance while allowing enough expandability for the user to add on features to make the PS3 compete with full fledged home computers. I'm sure the final design of the PS3 is going to have a hard drive, a decent amount of RAM, and an Ethernet port.
Any semblance to a PC is a prime reason for me NOT to buy a console. I hate PC gaming, and have hated it since the games went to hardware 3d. I've spent more time chasing bugs in drivers that create odd artifacts in games (or lock the whole machine) than I have actually playing games in the last few years. Anything that will allow console game developers to get away with the stupid 'wait for the next patch' crap is a step in the wrong direction.
The homeless person shouldn't HAVE to steal his food in the first place. He should be able to walk in the doors of any religous organization and get help.
The original poster was referring to use of quantum cryptography inside the United States. Your post makes aboslutely no sense at all in context. Of course the government wanted to restrict the availability of strong cryptographic mechanisms to the rest of the world! However; they never (to my knowledge) restricted its use inside the United States.
Of course, it could be argued that if there was no money to be made in the arts then only those who truly love them will produce them. This would create a situation in which only the highest quality works would be produced. So what if copyrights were abolished? Take the above statement and change the word arts to software and you'll see my point.
I would say yes to that. Given that I am unable to sit and gain anything at all from a class due to my mind wandering, and yet I can sit down and code for 15 hours straight. The classes I enjoy the most are the ones in which the professor doesn't teach...I don't need some braindead monkey copying problems on a blackboard, I need to figure out the problem myself! While I can't pay attention to the monkey for an hour, I can easily lose track of time trying to work out a problem on my own.
I really think ADD type people's brains work faster than normal peoples. I can't prove it, but it makes sense given the experiences of people I've talked to.
It's true, there's a lot of whiny, overpaid, pampered programmers in the world Read: Those guys that are in it solely for the money and, despite the fact they spent 4 years "learning" CS in some college, they still don't fully understand what they're doing.
32x is not exaggerating...I often stick a knife between my drive and the drive plate cover above it to kill some of the vibration. :)
Instead of rotating lasers, how about rotating mirrors?
Who would want a 100x drive? I think I've sustained permenant hearing loss from the whine of my 32x drive.
Whenever I go to the point of registering as if I were planning on buying or trying a piece of software and yet I don't actually carry through it means that the vendor didn't have all the information I needed available on the website. Quite often I'll register with a fake email address to check and see what the pricing schemes look like, what it will cost to ship a product, or just to see if I can glean any extra information from the website after registering.
If you take the limit as price goes to zero of the usefulness of the software over the price of the software you'll find that free software is infinitely better than any software that costs money.
:-).
Math, when appropriately misapplied, can be used to prove anything
If the users are too stupid to use an alternative browser to whatever CompuServe ships with their grandma-friendly gui then they probably deserve to get disturbed a bit...maybe they'll actually be forced to learn how to use their computer for a change. Paying for something does not imply zero learning curve, despite what Microsoft would have so many people believe.
Sure gas is explosive but a hydrogen car is a bomb
So would you rather be killed by the 1 megaton nuke as opposed to the 10 megaton nuke? You're just used to sitting on 15 gallons of gasoline...in time (assuming hydrogen powered automobiles make it to the consumer market), you'll be used to sitting on the hydrogen. So many people don't understand the amount of faith they're already putting into human engineering skill, and thus make statements such as yours.
As long as copy protection isn't government mandated, Microsoft's patents do diddly-squat for them. DRM OS implies building control management into the operating system...i'm sure you can think of plenty of ways to build DRM into a system without putting it in the operating system. The only function microsoft's patents were intended for is killing OSS in America if the CBDTPA passes.
It slides because the people selling it are the same people that think AMD produces an Athalon processor and that this Lunix thing is pretty neat.
I was invited over for a sneak-preview earlier this year by Mark Skaggs, and I'll tell you one thing: the rotation potential (of the 3D) graphics on this game, especially the scenery, is two generations of anything currently available on the market.
;-).
I'd hope it was at least two generations ahead, as that's probably how long it'll take before we see the game
The real question is: why does crap like that get posted in the first place. Slashdot editors see no problem using their infinite mod points, why not cut some trolling while they're at it.
:) ) in months.
Not that I'm complaining about the mod points, I couldn't possibly care less.
...and no, I don't watch Fox News, or ABC, or NBC, or CBS for that matter. I can read faster than the news anchor can speak. Compressing the whole day into 10 stories and compressing that into an hour is stupid. My television hasn't moved off channel 3 (the Nintendo channel
Otherwise known as too much money being put in one place. I don't understand why anyone donates to the united way and other large "charity" organizations. Even if you don't believe in a God, you should still donate to local church benevolence programs (just earmark the money for benevolence only). No beuracracy to muddle with, the money goes entirely to the people who need help because all the workers are volunteers.
Xerox also does this, at least on the support line for their copiers. It's fairly slick and was able to extract the english out of the horribly mangled "english" that I talked to it in :). I had to read the machine a string of numbers and it picked everyone of them up correctly.
On top of everything you've said, TV hardware on the PC isn't quite mature yet. I've been through two motherboards and tried both a hauppage wintv and all-in-wonder radeon on both with only limited success. In fact, I even tried out snapstream's software with the wintv card. Both cards are plagued by lockups, even under win2k.
Interestingly enough, the wintv card worked better under Linux than it ever did under Windows.
One word: Macrovision. It screws with video capture cards along with tape decks...maybe not all video capture cards, but certainly all the ones i've played with. You get a picture, but you also get nice lines in the picture and fun hue shifts :).
Probably stored right into the video via steganography in hopes that removal will also destroy the image.
I have to question anyone who continually refers to movies on DVD as "software". Also:
So, is there any real benefit directly for the consumer with D-Theater? Yes. Aside from offering a copy protection studio safe enough to compel the studios to release HD material as prepackaged media at all
The studios shouldn't be compelled by encryption, they should be compelled by consumer's desire for their product. If consumers are not the #1 driving factor behind a product aimed solely at consumers then there is a problem here. Someone has gotten so big that consumer desire will exist regardless of what they do.
quality PC parts
:)
That, my friend, is an oxymoron.
The only PC I have that hasn't broken at least once for no good reason is my 486.
Now back to your regularly scheduled thread.