If their player only outputs HDMI and not component video, then a great deal of first and second gen HDTVs won't be able to use this. I have a first-gen Panasonic Plasma TV that has component only (although they sold an add-on card to do DVI). So I can't use this.
Opera and Microsoft render pretty darn close... But it would make zero sense for microsoft to switch their browser. Microsoft's browser is not an application running on top of an operating system, it is an application intertwined with it. Opera or Firefox or any other browser can't natively run ActiveX, which means users can't point their browser to windowsupdate.com and have a browser run a client side tool to check if their system is updated, and seemlessly update their system.
Of course, none of that is needed on mobile devices. And the mobile devices don't have an OS dependency. It makes perfect sense to leverage Opera's success. But it makes zero sense to keep the Windows Version around.
The solution is to pack up, and discontinue selling software in the E.U. Simply put, if the E.U. really thinks Microsoft's solutions are harmful to business practices, they should welcome microsoft's removal from the market. Microsoft shouldn't allow its business practices like opening up code to be determined by third parties.
Of course, the E.U. really doesn't want them to. Instead they want to collect fines or exert power over how the business runs. The same thing that the U.S. government wanted. The U.S. government got its money. Only a matter of time before the E.U. does.
If Osama Bin Laden pays a man, or funds a man, to fly a plane into a building, and you are in it, and you perish, Osama has taken away a right of yours: the right to life.
looks like it will be setting a standard that students at private universities aren't guaranteed free speech online.
Why would you say that? did they incarcerate the students, violating their rights? Students are guarunteed the right to free speech, but not the right to be liked by university administration.
Students are allowed to say whatever they want, but universities are allowed to enroll whomever they choose, excercising their right of free association. No violation of rights occoured here.
I played Call Of Duty 2 at the neighborhood Best Buy, which has a kiosk set up with a widescreen Samsung LCD HDTV. I was thoroughly impressed. Having been a fan of the PC version of Call of Duty 1, call of duty 2 played with a great framerate, intuitive controls, and great lighting effects, all at widescreen 720p. There were also lots of little 'effects', such as the smooth blurring upon taking damage, the directional lighting from explosions, and the detailed character models that really made me stop and pay attention.
Granted, its a niche genre that probably won't sell a lot of systems, but if I can expect PC-calibre games on the system, then I'll probably get one.
personally, I don't see why that's such a big deal. who sells or markets their product as 'easy to ditch for someone else's product'? Hell, you can still use PHP to connect to an MSSQL 2005 server and run that SP which is written in C#
It was actually a question he posed to our Environmental Science class. Would we invest in his idea? It seemed bunk at the time, especially since the guy also supposedly wrote a 'unified theory of everything' book, also a holy grail. The professor also told us it was bunk.
Instead of using string theory and other multidimensional views, he had a simpler one that involved an even lower valence electron state of hydrogen. I guess I'll believe it when I see it.
continuing off-topic, there's a CSS 3 proposed standard that would split content in a block level element into columns.
One exists for PHP, so its not out of the question
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Visual Studio is pretty powerful, relatively speaking. There's a plugin for PHP, (http://www.jcxsoftware.com/) so it wouldn't be the first time an open source programming platform was used in a Visual studio plugin.
Also, in the new Visual studio HTML editor, there's a web standards dropdown so that the code will flag as errors if not part of the selected standard. The same dropdown could exist for Wine code. I'd use it.
India was under colonial rule for just as long as many of the African nations. Why is it then that India has a modern and effective economy and government, while African nations languish?
It has nothing to do with race. But I can't say that colonialism is the case, either.
What a joke. Its Oracle's own demise if they buy MySQL.
The problem is that there are two MySQLs. There's 4.1 and lower, which doesn't really support the ANSI SQL standard. You know, wonderful little peeves like 'CROSS JOIN' requires an 'ON' directive because MySQL treats it like an 'INNER JOIN'. Or maybe you want to nest selects that refer to the same table, in a delete statement? Ha. Fat chance.
And then there's MySQL 5.0, which supports all of the garbage in MySQL 4.1 plus a bunch of flags that let you automagically actually support the SQL standard calls. Plus you get triggers, stored procedures, and a pony.
MySQL is prolific, I'll give it that. But its created a cadre of developers who don't know why 'INNER JOIN' is better than just 'select table1,table2', or that string parsing should be done on the application level, not the DB level.
Doesn't this sound EXACTLY like what Apple is dissing the RIAA for, i.e. trying to make more money off of the IPOD?
Apple should try and make as much money off of the ipod as possible. If they don't, they're doing a disservice to their shareholders and employees. Now, how they decide or what they decide is the best route to make the most money, aka whether to require license agreements for trademark use, etc, is up for debate. But make no mistake, its Apple's job to make the most money off of their ideas. That's why people work.
Here's the real question: when I put a new DVD into my computer, will it rip the DVD into a format i can put on my ipod? that's what Itunes does with CDs currently. if so, I already have a library of stuff I can put on my ipod.
The insane thing about it is the fact that no one supports the bill except a handful of entertainment companies
The number of people who support a piece of legislation is irrelivant in terms of whether a law is right or wrong. At some point in our nation's history it was only a handful of people who wanted to:
free the slaves
allow women to vote
legalize abortion
There are plenty of reasons not to vote for this law, but that line of reasoning isn't one of them.
(fyi, do not mistake this comment as support for the law)
The only grounds they really have for complaint here is the economic feasibility of allowing one year contracts
Or, you know, the right to run your business as you see fit. You know, where companies can set their business practices, fees, rules. Anything else is glorified price fixing.
That's right, consumers aren't smart enough, YOU know whats better for them. Its comments like yours that sound like you're sneering down at consumers or people, like they're unwashed, and only YOUR ideas are good.
Or, maybe, just maybe, there's a difference of opinion. If I want to run one of the 75% of games out there that only run on Windows, I want Windows.
I, for one, welcome our new consumer purchase overlords.
Nokia's first generation of cellphones that sold well (circa 1998) were built like tanks. I had a 5400 series phone and that thing STILL works, minus a battery replacement or two in its life. Granted, it can barely SMS, doesn't browse the web, or anything else. But it makes friggin phone calls seven years after it was bought.
RMS makes an interesting (though underdiscussed) case for why people should be able to share verbatim copies of all published work.
It was a 'screener'... that means its technically an unpublished work. An analogy would be that if you wrote a book and sent it to an editor for spelling, grammar, word choice, or other changes, and it was released by an editor's secretary or clerk, then you'd probably be upset. Because its unfinished; It doesn't represent what you meant to publish. Same applies here. Even if you support abolishing copyright, do you support being able to copy someone's work without their permission in medias res? If so, then you would have to support the source code 'leak' of Half-Life 2.
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If their player only outputs HDMI and not component video, then a great deal of first and second gen HDTVs won't be able to use this. I have a first-gen Panasonic Plasma TV that has component only (although they sold an add-on card to do DVI). So I can't use this.
Well, in this case homebrewers just need to load an entirely new codebase. If you don't boot to the xbox dashboard, you won't have a problem.
So if someone gets some sort of linux on there, autoupdates would be moot. I doubt you'd be connecting to Xboxlive at that point anyways.
Opera and Microsoft render pretty darn close... But it would make zero sense for microsoft to switch their browser. Microsoft's browser is not an application running on top of an operating system, it is an application intertwined with it. Opera or Firefox or any other browser can't natively run ActiveX, which means users can't point their browser to windowsupdate.com and have a browser run a client side tool to check if their system is updated, and seemlessly update their system.
Of course, none of that is needed on mobile devices. And the mobile devices don't have an OS dependency. It makes perfect sense to leverage Opera's success. But it makes zero sense to keep the Windows Version around.
I said microsoft should quit, not be banned. I would refuse to do business under someone else's terms.
The solution is to pack up, and discontinue selling software in the E.U. Simply put, if the E.U. really thinks Microsoft's solutions are harmful to business practices, they should welcome microsoft's removal from the market. Microsoft shouldn't allow its business practices like opening up code to be determined by third parties.
Of course, the E.U. really doesn't want them to. Instead they want to collect fines or exert power over how the business runs. The same thing that the U.S. government wanted. The U.S. government got its money. Only a matter of time before the E.U. does.
I'm confused now.
I know, you'll have to change your entire pigeon-hole worldview!
If Osama Bin Laden pays a man, or funds a man, to fly a plane into a building, and you are in it, and you perish, Osama has taken away a right of yours: the right to life.
looks like it will be setting a standard that students at private universities aren't guaranteed free speech online.
Why would you say that? did they incarcerate the students, violating their rights? Students are guarunteed the right to free speech, but not the right to be liked by university administration.
Students are allowed to say whatever they want, but universities are allowed to enroll whomever they choose, excercising their right of free association. No violation of rights occoured here.
Because even $400 worth of upgrades to my current PC wouldn't let me play it with that framerate. Nor would it let me afford at widescreen monitor.
I played Call Of Duty 2 at the neighborhood Best Buy, which has a kiosk set up with a widescreen Samsung LCD HDTV. I was thoroughly impressed. Having been a fan of the PC version of Call of Duty 1, call of duty 2 played with a great framerate, intuitive controls, and great lighting effects, all at widescreen 720p. There were also lots of little 'effects', such as the smooth blurring upon taking damage, the directional lighting from explosions, and the detailed character models that really made me stop and pay attention.
Granted, its a niche genre that probably won't sell a lot of systems, but if I can expect PC-calibre games on the system, then I'll probably get one.
HDTVs are less than $500. Get a 27 inch HDTV from Samsung at http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.do?BV_UseBV Cookie=Yes&vertical=ELEC&pid=05747075000&subcat=Fo r+Him
Sears.
personally, I don't see why that's such a big deal. who sells or markets their product as 'easy to ditch for someone else's product'? Hell, you can still use PHP to connect to an MSSQL 2005 server and run that SP which is written in C#
It was actually a question he posed to our Environmental Science class. Would we invest in his idea? It seemed bunk at the time, especially since the guy also supposedly wrote a 'unified theory of everything' book, also a holy grail. The professor also told us it was bunk.
Instead of using string theory and other multidimensional views, he had a simpler one that involved an even lower valence electron state of hydrogen. I guess I'll believe it when I see it.
Yep. That's efficient. I hate to break it to you but rockets produce several tons of pollution.
continuing off-topic, there's a CSS 3 proposed standard that would split content in a block level element into columns.
Visual Studio is pretty powerful, relatively speaking. There's a plugin for PHP, (http://www.jcxsoftware.com/) so it wouldn't be the first time an open source programming platform was used in a Visual studio plugin.
Also, in the new Visual studio HTML editor, there's a web standards dropdown so that the code will flag as errors if not part of the selected standard. The same dropdown could exist for Wine code. I'd use it.
India was under colonial rule for just as long as many of the African nations. Why is it then that India has a modern and effective economy and government, while African nations languish?
It has nothing to do with race. But I can't say that colonialism is the case, either.
What a joke. Its Oracle's own demise if they buy MySQL.
The problem is that there are two MySQLs. There's 4.1 and lower, which doesn't really support the ANSI SQL standard. You know, wonderful little peeves like 'CROSS JOIN' requires an 'ON' directive because MySQL treats it like an 'INNER JOIN'. Or maybe you want to nest selects that refer to the same table, in a delete statement? Ha. Fat chance.
And then there's MySQL 5.0, which supports all of the garbage in MySQL 4.1 plus a bunch of flags that let you automagically actually support the SQL standard calls. Plus you get triggers, stored procedures, and a pony.
MySQL is prolific, I'll give it that. But its created a cadre of developers who don't know why 'INNER JOIN' is better than just 'select table1,table2', or that string parsing should be done on the application level, not the DB level.
Doesn't this sound EXACTLY like what Apple is dissing the RIAA for, i.e. trying to make more money off of the IPOD?
Apple should try and make as much money off of the ipod as possible. If they don't, they're doing a disservice to their shareholders and employees. Now, how they decide or what they decide is the best route to make the most money, aka whether to require license agreements for trademark use, etc, is up for debate. But make no mistake, its Apple's job to make the most money off of their ideas. That's why people work.
Here's the real question: when I put a new DVD into my computer, will it rip the DVD into a format i can put on my ipod? that's what Itunes does with CDs currently. if so, I already have a library of stuff I can put on my ipod.
The number of people who support a piece of legislation is irrelivant in terms of whether a law is right or wrong. At some point in our nation's history it was only a handful of people who wanted to:
There are plenty of reasons not to vote for this law, but that line of reasoning isn't one of them.
(fyi, do not mistake this comment as support for the law)
The only grounds they really have for complaint here is the economic feasibility of allowing one year contracts
Or, you know, the right to run your business as you see fit. You know, where companies can set their business practices, fees, rules. Anything else is glorified price fixing.
That's right, consumers aren't smart enough, YOU know whats better for them. Its comments like yours that sound like you're sneering down at consumers or people, like they're unwashed, and only YOUR ideas are good.
Or, maybe, just maybe, there's a difference of opinion. If I want to run one of the 75% of games out there that only run on Windows, I want Windows.
I, for one, welcome our new consumer purchase overlords.
Nokia's first generation of cellphones that sold well (circa 1998) were built like tanks. I had a 5400 series phone and that thing STILL works, minus a battery replacement or two in its life. Granted, it can barely SMS, doesn't browse the web, or anything else. But it makes friggin phone calls seven years after it was bought.
RMS makes an interesting (though underdiscussed) case for why people should be able to share verbatim copies of all published work.
It was a 'screener'... that means its technically an unpublished work. An analogy would be that if you wrote a book and sent it to an editor for spelling, grammar, word choice, or other changes, and it was released by an editor's secretary or clerk, then you'd probably be upset. Because its unfinished; It doesn't represent what you meant to publish. Same applies here. Even if you support abolishing copyright, do you support being able to copy someone's work without their permission in medias res? If so, then you would have to support the source code 'leak' of Half-Life 2.